Document <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-model href="https://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/tei_all.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="null"?><TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"> <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>Zeller letter 1942-09-04</title> <author>John Zeller</author> <respStmt> <persName>Susan Falciani Maldonado</persName> <resp>University Archivist and Director of Special Collections</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Diane Jakacki</persName> <resp>Digital Scholarship Coordinator</resp> </respStmt> </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <distributor>Special Collections/University Archives, Bertrand Library</distributor> <authority>Bucknell University</authority> <address> <addrLine>Lewisburg</addrLine> <addrLine>Pennsylvania</addrLine> </address> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <p>John F. 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I do not know where we will be but I shall either call or telegraph on arrival tomorrow nite or early Sunday.</p> <p>Chances are we are not to go far, for we haven't been instructed to keep out toilet articles, etc - as usually are kept out on long trips. Speculation here includes Camp <pb facs="https://leaf.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/0002_1942-09-04_002.jpg" n="2"/> Dix, Indiantown Gap, Camp Mead, Atlantic City (I like it there), and a dozen others. It's probably west or south and we have no way of knowing how far.</p> <p>I took out $10,000 insurance as you will see from the application form ( copy) a put in the suitcase. $5,000 would go to each of you. It will cost $6.60 a month from my pay. I may be insurance poor after the war, but it is so cheap I'd be foolish not to take it. </p> <pb facs="https://leaf.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/1942-09-04_003.jpg" n="3"/> <p> We all living out of barracks bags. I hope we get trunks when we get to permanent station. If we don't I want you, Mother, to make me some small bags for toilet articles, underwear, handkies, & dirty clothes. But I'll let you know later about that.</p> <p>So far I like it immensely. Pearl was right. It is just like an overgrown boy scout camp.</p> <p>The food is good - and so much of it! I have trouble eating it all. I think I've caught on to the system. I just don't let them give me so much <pb facs="https://leaf.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/1942-09-04_004.jpg" n="4"/> anymore.</p> <p>I went to a camp radio program tonight broadcast over a Harrisburg station. I suppose I'll be going to a lot more of those from time to time.</p> <p>This morning we went to educational movies. It was just after breakfast + the theater was like a bake - oven. The 1st short reel was on venereal disease. they showed pictures of various actual cases & stages of the diseases. I got sick - my stomach came up into my month, turned over, + went back down. I actually passed out cold for a <pb facs="https://leaf.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/1942-09-04_005.jpg" n="5"/> few minutes. It was dark so no one but the fellow next to me noticed, and hence I wasn't disgraced. I was alright when they got rid of those gruesome pictures. I never could stand things like that. Now I know I could never be a doctor. I think it is a good thing to show pictures like that - frank, accurate, and straight from the shoulder. Boys who would have been inclined to get out of hand in that line will think twice before they do after seeing that.</p> <p>There are so many things I could tell you. This life is <pb facs="https://leaf.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/1942-09-04_006.jpg" n="6"/> so new, I hardly know what to tell you about 1st.</p> <p>Tell Henry I ran into Runkle last evening. He is so afraid they'll (the other selectees) will find out he is a college instructor + type him. He taught English and has an awful time whenever a corporal or sargeant uses "ain't," "them there," or "youse."</p> <p>Until I am located more permanently, then,</p> <closer><signed>John.</signed> P.S. I have to apply for officers training later.</closer> </div> </body> </text> </TEI> Document Download Object Type XML document Related Item No
