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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- 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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they had to close for a few days.

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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

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