File:Letter, 17 April 1941, page 2 of 4.jpg
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English: "Caviar taste like so much sawdust. In my former letters I complained about the mud; the dubious delights of sleeping in it, eating it, in fact seeing so much of it that you began to acquire a mud fixation. Well we haven’t had any mud for some time because the mud has given way to ankle deep dust. Whenever you take a step your entire person is obscured by billowing clouds of dust. This place apparently has two conditions-wet as hell, or dry as the devil.
The venereal rate is very high. In fact it is so high that the enlisted personnel are no longer allowed to spend an occasional weekend in Guantanamo City. It, Guantanamo City, was placed out of bounds today, the doctors apparently working on the assumption that" From the Edward L. Parke Collection (COLL/5627) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH |
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