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				<title>Zeller letter 1942-11-12</title>
				<author>John Zeller</author>
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					<persName>Susan Falciani Maldonado</persName>
					<resp>University Archivist and Director of Special Collections</resp>
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					<persName>Diane Jakacki</persName>
					<resp>Digital Scholarship Coordinator</resp>
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				<distributor>Special Collections/University Archives, Bertrand Library</distributor>
				<authority>Bucknell University</authority>
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					<addrLine>Lewisburg</addrLine>
					<addrLine>Pennsylvania</addrLine>
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				John F. Zeller Papers
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						D-8-3 FARC<lb/>
					<date>Nov. 12, 1942</date>
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					<salute>Dear Grandma - Aunt Stella - &amp; Uncle Elmer--</salute>
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					I'm writing early this week because this
					week-end is bound to be crowded. Mother &amp; Dad
					arrive sometime tonight -- but of course I shan't
					see them until sometime tomorrow afternoon.
					So I want to get correspondence out of the
					way.
				
				
					But the week-end is going to be
					particularly bad because -- good news --
					I start to Center School Saturday and there
					will be a big assignment for Monday.
					I wasn't scheduled to start and I had
					expected two or three weeks of K.P. and
					dirty work before I actually got there. But
					one of the fellows whose name comes in the
								
					beginning of the alphabet had a bit
					tough luck with his teeth -- and has to
					wait until the dentists fix him up
					before he goes to school. Evidently they
					picked his substitute from the end of the
					alphabet -- for I got the call. At any
					rate -- I'm on my way toward that
					commission.
				
				
					It will be a great relief to be rid
					of the dirty work the ordinary private must
					do -- picking up snipes dropped by thoughtless
					officers, washing dishes, handling garbage,
					scrubbing the latrine, shoveling coal, walking
					guard in all kinds of weather. But it
					has been a real experience and good training.
					Now that it is behind me -- for good, I hope, --
					I 'm glad I had the 10 weeks here.
				
				
					My letters will undoubtedly be brief
					from now on, for the classes are really tough,
					 but I'll try to write or drop a card now &amp; then.
				
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					<salute>Yours,</salute><lb/> <signed>John</signed>
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November 12, 1942