Saturday, January 9, 2010

About Letter 178


Bill gets paid and discovers that "for the past month I've been a Private First Class." With his $4.80 raise and combat infantry pay he now makes "about $75 a month." He learns that his grandfather's estate "back east" has settled to the tune of about "twenty-five thousand greenbacks. That would certainly make for post war security in the old homestead."

No comments:

Post a Comment

If you receive an error message when posting a comment or preview please hit "Post Comment" or "Preview" a second time and it should go through.--Greg