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Ramon Sweeney Letters

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Ramon “Ray” Sweeney (1896-1986), was born and raised in San Francisco. Due to his father’s untimely death just before the 1906 earthquake, Sweeney dropped out of school at the age of ten in order to work and help support his family. He enlisted in the Navy in 1917 and was initially stationed at Mare Island, California. He sailed for the Far East in 1918, and spent time in Honolulu, Shanghai, and the Philippines. He was discharged in 1919, and returned to San Francisco where he worked in the wholesale fruit and produce business.

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long if you don't make it that time you still Stand in line till they clear off the tables and start serving again. Each meal means stand in line an hour or more. I have only ten more day's to stay in the detention camp, then our company goes to the ship as they call it which is a comaflauge then we get better eats and the first day we go there which is just out side of the detention camp we get about 24 hours liberty. If we get out of the detention camp on the fourth of

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of July we will have to go to Los Angeles to parade.

About the berries I will have to drop Harry a card and find out. Last night I wrote a letter to Uncle Joe and Aunt Hattie. I was going to write again to you if I did not receive a letter I thought maybe I gave you the wrong addressess. Soon as you get this letter just drop a card with the adress of Elmo's bosse's place so I can send the suit case there and you can answer the letter later. The first entertainment they

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had here was to-night for the boys I did not go because I knew I had to wash and write this letter. It is getting to dark to see what I am writing so I think will mail this an go to my hammock. Hoping everyone is in good health. And answer soon.

Ray

Adress letter this way

R Sweeney U.S.N.R. San Pedro c/o Detention Camp

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June 25th 1918 San Pedro

Dear Ma: Received your letter to-day and was sure glad to get it. When I looked on the post mark I see it took five days to get her. Sunday I was waiting in front of the post office for a letter, after I had eating at five o'clock when the boatsman came up and took fifty men for some extra duty so I got two & half hours extra work. The only boys I have seen so far from Sunset are Jim Hayden who lives on Tenth Ave & one of the Schivo's boys the man

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- 2 (stratched out - the man) I used to ride down in the morning with. you say it is foggy at home you ought to be here the sun is so hot every body's face gets blissed and some can't even sleep at night they are in such pain. We are supposed to get all our soup free bu the last couple of days we had to buy it. You ask about the eats they are not so bad but then are about 1800 men to feed and the mess room only holds about 400 at once that means there is three messes if you miss the first you stand in line which is is a few blocks

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