The Accident - Summer 1942 - A Letter from the Dorseys - Part 2

Charlotte Dorsey's letter continues...

Letter - Page 3

"...Ike doesn't feel that he can ask for time off, so of course we skipped the picnic.

We were at Wendling sometime in May - I've forgotten just when, and the town really doesn't seem the same.  Lots of families have gone to defense centers for war-time work - of course all the unmarried me are in service' and I wonder how long they'll be able to keep the mill going.  Harold has been in the army since early Spring - first in training in Texas, then at Camp Murray near Ft. Lewis.  Right now his letters are postmarked Seattle, but we're not sure whether he's there, or whether his mail just goes through that POst Office.  He expects overseas service, and you can imagine how his folks feel about that.  They spent a week at Camp Murray with him, and now feel..."

Letter - Page 4

"...terribly lonesome without him.

My sister and I have been picking raspberries lately.  We quit at one o-clock today because the heat was too much for us.  We've had a lot of fun, and feel quite patriotic about it, but as far as making money is concerned, we're failures.  Mother takes care of Jimmie for me, and because I don't like to waken him too early, we get a late start, and we don't make a hard job of it, and quit when we get tired.  Altogether we're sissies, and make about 20 cents an hout!  It begins to look as it we're in for another hot wek, so my patriotism will probably wear pretty thin.

We haven't done a thing to..."

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