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Don Floyd in Japan Now
Don Floyd, son of Mr. and Mrs.
George Floyd, is now in Japan, but hopes soon to
be returned to the states. He writes under date of
September 24th, 1945 as follows:
Well it is raining
tonight so the movie was canceled and I will drop
you a few lines. I am feeling swell and hope you
can say the same.
I had liberty yesterday
and went to Yokasuha. I got some souvenirs and am
sending a picture. It is of some Japanese girls.
The girls over here aren't too bad looking. It's
either that or I haven't seen a white girl for so
long I've forgotten what they look like. They say
after you have been here for six months the
blackest ones turn white.
We went through a Jap civilian
hospital with a Jap nurse who could speak a little
English. She showed us everything and how it
worked. There were a lot of pretty girls around
there, but hardly any men. Very friendly, too. All
the kids know is "hello", "goodbye" and "gum".
They beg for chewing gum. We also went by a school
where some little kids were studying.
Things over here are really
bombed out but somehow the people don't really
notice the Americans, they just go along as usual
with everyday life. Boy I saw something yesterday.
A young healthy boy helped an old lady put a big
heavy load on her back and then they walked
down the street. That's some different from the
United States. She must have been 70 or 80 years
old. The Japanese women are sort of a pack horse.
You seldom see a man carry a load.
You can trade cigarettes for
anything you want. We pay five cents for a pack of
them and can sell them for 10 yen in Japanese
money (worth about 75 cents in ours) and sometimes
even more. Conditions are pretty bad over here but
I guess they had it coming.
We haven't had any mail for a
few days so I really don't know much to write
about. We are hoping to get our orders to return
to the states any day now and if we do maybe I can
get home for Thanksgiving with you. I certainly
hope so. I will write and tell you when I'm
leaving and when I get to the states I will send
you a telegram. Maybe we will have some other work
to do before we return; no one knows, but we are
hoping for the best.
I heard a baseball game,
a football game and sort of a fight on the radio
today. It looks like the Cubs are doing ok.
Well folks, I must close for
tonight. Hope to see you before too much longer.
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