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				<title>Zeller correspondence</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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				<p>John F. Zeller Papers</p>
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					<dateline>Feb 28, 1943</dateline>
					<salute>Dear Grandma, Aunt Stella, + Uncle Elmer --</salute>
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				<p> Only 18 more days and I'll be leading home. This week I received confirmation of
					my reservation with American Airlines out of Okla. City. I'll leave Okla City at
					6:45 and arrive in Pittsburg at 4:14 Fridary morning at 4:14. So I shall be in
					Lewisburg by noon. </p>
				<p> I went on a uniform spree again this weekend and spent what was left of my pay
					before I knew what was going on. These things are so expensive -- and yet we
					have to have them. I paid $10 for a bag full of brass -- bars and insignia and
					$20 for just a few little items of clothing. When shirts cost $12.75 it doesn't
					take long to go broke. </p>
				<p> I hope you'll pardon my classy stationery. the PX didn't have much but this --
					so I had to take it. </p>
				<p> There is no more news as to where I'll be sent from here. I'm sort of afraid
					I'll be coming back here. It will be all right -- as far as that goes -- but if
					I come back here I won't get any additional travel time beyond the 10 days --
					and I won't get any travel money. </p>
				<p> I'm looking forward a great deal to those days at home. I am going to sleep late
					every morning and go to the movies when I want to without standing in line. But
					I'm afraid I'll feel like an outsider to sit down to a dinner table again.
					Mother will have to invite the neighborhood in and have us all stand in line
					with tin trays to be served cafeteria style. Other wise I won't be "at home." </p>
				<p> I was hut orderly this week again and managed to get through without any more
					demerits. If I can just get past the coming week, now, the chances are good that
					I may end up with a total of only 4. </p>
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					<salute>Love,</salute>
					<signed>John</signed>
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