Correspondence from Owen Hamilton to his sister June Meyer (June E. Hooe Hamilton Meyer, 1919-2010 (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81471045/june-e_hooe-meyer). He's glad she got the package and liked it as shopping for baby things is out of his line. He was pretty well filled up on island rum that day so if she liked that, he will have to go on another bender and go shopping again as nothing is too good for his nephew (he hopes). He was out in the field last week and will tell her his tale of woe. He is not cut out to be a field soldier. Sleeping on the ground, washing in a canteen cup, and eating ""C"" rations is not his idea of the best way to live. His only consolation is that he'd be worse off in the infantry--they really have it rough. At least he can ride. Today was the pay off--he drove 100 miles to fire his rifle 4 times. That's pretty expensive practice, but if the government wants to pay for that he's not kicking. The flooding at home must not be so bad so he doesn't have to worry about that, but he does want to know about how Bosse High School came out in the finals. (FACT: Bosse High School won for the 2nd year in a row, 46-36.) He has to wait a week or two to get the news so he guesses the world must be pretty big after all. George Becker has been writing him regularly and keeping him informed about the games, etc. He got the clipping from her one day and the letter the next, and for a while was confused. He says that Morgan's (his brother in law) 1A does not sound good, but he hopes he won't have to go.