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John F. Zeller<lb/> F-10-4 F.A.R.C.<lb/> <placeName key="Fort Bragg" ref="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q991369" cert="high">Fort Bragg<precision match="@ref" precision="high"/></placeName>, N.C.</dateline> <salute>Dear <placeName xml:id="hz003">Mother</placeName> & <persName cert="high" type="real" xml:id="jz002">Dad</persName> + <persName>Grandma</persName> --</salute> </opener> <p>My address is above. We were put on <sic>quaranteen </sic>immediately upon arrival, so I could not phone or telegraph. We are confined to our company street for 14 days. I'll get off on the 20th.</p> <p>I will not get a furlough until I have completed basic training, so I guess it will be impossible for me to get home before Christmas. </p> <pb facs="/sites/default/files/2025-04/1942-09-05_002.jpg" n="2"/> <p> I am in a field artillery regiment. We will set up communications - telephone lines- for <sic>observors </sic>and between batteries. My years on the switchboard at <orgName key="Bucknell University" ref="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3444679" cert="high">BU</orgName> got me in this. I am the only one of our group here. The rest of the fellows are also in field artillery, but they are in other companies. I won't be able to see them before the two weeks are up and perhaps not then. There are 85,000 men here and the camp stretches for 25 miles.</p> <p>It is very nice, and I have no doubt but what I'll <pb facs="/sites/default/files/2025-04/1942-09-05_003.jpg" n="3"/> like it. I'm going to work hard and do the very best I can.</p> <p>Basic training here lasts at least 8 weeks - perhaps 13 - then I'll be shipped somewhere else. I shall hope it will be to officers training school.</p> <p> The initials in my address means this - Battery F, 10th Batalion, 4th regiment, Field Artillery Replacement Center.</p> <p> There is a great deal to tell, but I went to get this out, as I know you're anxious. I'll write more details tomorrow <pb facs="/sites/default/files/2025-04/1942-09-05_004.jpg" n="4"/> night. Mail at regular rate takes two days. This will go air mail. I'm posting it at 6:00 P.M. Let me know how soon you get it.</p> <closer> <salute>Yours til tomorrow's letter,</salute> <signed><persName key="John Frederick Zeller III" ref="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6234161" cert="high" type="real">John</persName></signed> </closer> <postscript> <p>P. S. Please send me a pair of slippers. I want the kind that consist of nothing but a sole + heel + straps over the feet - made of rubber or [illegible] or something like that. I'd prefer not leather, because I want them for the shower room. <persName>Ken Wolfe</persName> is here, but of course I can't get out to see him. J.</p> </postscript> </div> </body> </text> </TEI>
