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- 3 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 them we get better eats and the first day we go there which is just outside 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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San Pedro July 4th
Dear Ma
Received your packages yesterday and was sure glad to get them. The cake was great I cut it in small pieces and every one on our side of the tent had cake. They all wanted to know who made it and I told them you did. I did not receive any letter with the package except the one with the watch crystal. So tomorrow I am going to sent the suit case home as long as Elmo
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has quit his job. To day is partly a holiday down here. Don't answer this letter till I write again because Saturday my 21 days is up and I go to the ship and I don't know what my mail address will be for a few days. The weather is fine down here and I am feeling just as good. All we been doing for the the last couple of days has been marching and carrying guns till our feet nearly fall off
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Tell Del I will answer her little letter in a few days when I will have more to tell her after we are changed around. Hoping every one is feeling good and behaving them selves.
With love Ray.
P.S. The tobacco just got here in time as I was all out of it and the canteen is closed and know one can buy any thing for a couple of days. The fellows were getting sick they bought so much candy so