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				<title>Zeller letter 1942-09-04</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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					<addrLine>Lewisburg</addrLine>
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						<dateline><placeName cert="high" key="New Cumberland" ref="http://viaf.org/viaf/154889000">New Cumberland</placeName><lb/>
						<date>Sept. 4, 1942</date><lb/></dateline>
					
					<salute>Dear <persName cert="high" type="real" xml:id="hz003">Mother</persName>, <persName xml:id="jz002">Dad</persName>, &amp; <persName cert="high" type="real">Grandma</persName>--</salute>
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				 We leave before six tomorrow (Sat.) morning. I do not know where we will be but
					I shall either call or telegraph on arrival tomorrow nite or early Sunday.
				Chances are we are not to go far, for we haven't been instructed to keep out
					<objectName type="equipment">toilet articles</objectName>, etc - as usually are kept out on long trips. Speculation here
					includes <placeName key="Fort Dix" ref="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1087169" cert="medium">Camp Dix<precision match="@ref" precision="medium"/></placeName>, <placeName cert="high">Indiantown Gap</placeName>, <placeName key="Fort George G. Meade" ref="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q509549" cert="medium">Camp Mead<precision match="@ref" precision="medium"/></placeName>, <placeName key="Atlantic City" ref="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q139564" cert="high">Atlantic City<precision match="@ref" precision="high"/></placeName> (I like it there), and
					a dozen others. It's probably west or south and we have no way of knowing
					how far.
				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. 
				
				 We are living out of <objectName type="other">barracks bags.</objectName> 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, <objectName type="clothing">underwear</objectName>, <objectName type="personal">handkies</objectName>, &amp; <objectName type="clothing">dirty clothes</objectName>. But
					I'll let you know later about that.
				So far I like it immensely. <persName>Pearl</persName> was right. It is just like an overgrown boy
					scout camp.
				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
						 anymore.
				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.
				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 &amp; 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 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.
				There are so many things I could tell you. This life is so new, I hardly know what to tell you about 1st.
				Tell <persName cert="high" type="real">Henry</persName> I ran into <persName cert="high" type="real"><sic>Runkle</sic></persName> 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 <sic>sargeant</sic> uses
					"ain't," "them there," or "youse."
				Until I am located more permanently, then,
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				<signed>John.</signed>
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				<postscript>P.S. I have to apply for officers training
					later.
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