{"id":50,"date":"2010-01-09T09:58:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T09:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/\/\/uncategorized\/50\/"},"modified":"2010-01-09T09:58:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T09:58:38","slug":"50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/50\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters &#8211; 1942 to 1945 #15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capit\u00e1n TG Leske<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">71.\u00ba Regimiento de Infanter\u00eda<br \/>\nAPO44<br \/>\nFort Lewis, Washington.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">2-25-43 &nbsp; (Tacoma, Washington &#8211; on Fort Lewis letterhead)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Se\u00f1orita Jane Axtell<br \/>\n538 S. Normand\u00eda<br \/>\nLos \u00c1ngeles, California<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Hola Jane!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nReceived your note before mess and am making haste to answer.&nbsp; That is one of my finer points-remember? &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy &quot;seventeen words&quot; would not meant to sound&nbsp; quite as nasty as you appear to have translated them.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I will admit my heart was not&nbsp; pure at the time&nbsp; but I was going to write a letter to follow. Unfortunately I forgot how soon you would have the first message let too much time elapse before writing again.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSince we&#8217;ve got back on the post things at have been very quiet.&nbsp; The only real piece of news is that we&#8217;re been put in the Army Ground Forces and are in fact starting to train for combat. The division is getting thousands of replacements and a big program has been started.&nbsp; Maybe the excitement&nbsp; of looking forward to going into a combat area prevented me from writing you.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf you are going to haunt me please do it half-heartedly&nbsp; or the whole thing may end up badly as before.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nStill having gone on leave &#8211; same reason, no incentive. I&#8217;ll have to put my mind to it and find a nice reason, be it blonde, brunette, redhead or in between.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTook me two days to write this letter so I will close or several more days may go by before the urge gets me again.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recordar<\/p>\n<p>Ted<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capit\u00e1n TG Leske<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">71.\u00ba Regimiento de Infanter\u00eda<br \/>\nAPO44<br \/>\nFort Lewis, Washington.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">2-25-43 &nbsp; (Tacoma, Washington &#8211; on Fort Lewis letterhead)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Se\u00f1orita Jane Axtell<br \/>\n538 S. Normand\u00eda<br \/>\nLos \u00c1ngeles, California<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Hola Jane!<\/p>\n<p>Received your note before mess and am making haste to answer.&nbsp; That is one of my finer points-remember? &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My &quot;seventeen words&quot; would not meant to sound&nbsp; quite as nasty as you appear to have translated them.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I will admit my heart was not&nbsp; pure at the time&nbsp; but I was going to write a letter to follow. Unfortunately I forgot how soon you would have the first message let too much time elapse before writing again.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since we&#8217;ve got back on the post things at have been very quiet.&nbsp; The only real piece of news is that we&#8217;re been put in the Army Ground Forces and are in fact starting to train for combat. The division is getting thousands of replacements and a big program has been started.&nbsp; Maybe the excitement&nbsp; of looking forward to going into a combat area prevented me from writing you.<\/p>\n<p>If you are going to haunt me please do it half-heartedly&nbsp; or the whole thing may end up badly as before.<\/p>\n<p>Still having gone on leave &#8211; same reason, no incentive. I&#8217;ll have to put my mind to it and find a nice reason, be it blonde, brunette, redhead or in between.<\/p>\n<p>Took me two days to write this letter so I will close or several more days may go by before the urge gets me again.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recordar<\/p>\n<p>Ted<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1943_letter"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Bob","author_link":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/author\/admin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}