tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889963722674899878.post1480368228016932665..comments2023-07-04T10:09:25.824-07:00Comments on The World War II Letters of William Wellington Taylor, Jr.: Letter 82- March 20, 1944Greg Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409962933357676885noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889963722674899878.post-47071717632725867882009-07-09T08:09:36.915-07:002009-07-09T08:09:36.915-07:00Bill lives for his mail, so I guess he is willing ...Bill lives for his mail, so I guess he is willing to pay the 16 cents premium to speed it up. When he gets overseas the turnaround will sometimes be more than 30 days. That will be torture for him.<br /><br />I have no idea about Higgins or "Dude", but Bill had a number of classmates from Harvard who went on to have prominant careers. It was an exclusive school.<br /><br />In a future letter Bill puts forth an interesting theory about his assignment to radio school. He thinks that he is part of an experiment to see if lower scorers on the aptitute test can still be made radio operators.Greg Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01409962933357676885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889963722674899878.post-88537550914227026892009-07-09T06:47:01.733-07:002009-07-09T06:47:01.733-07:00Bill likes to send letters Air Mail and Special De...Bill likes to send letters Air Mail and Special Delivery. I guess we forget what the postal system once was like. Today First Class letters arrive within a day or two, even cross country. In those days it was all sorted by hand and hauled by by train. I would imagine a normal letter might take a week from Camp Crowder to Los Angeles. <br /><br />It would be nice to know who Higgins was. Apparently he was another student at the military school and became a major. That would seem to be a pretty meteoric rise even if he was several classes ahead of Bill. <br /><br />I can sympathize with Bill stuck in class listing to code. If he doesn't have an "ear" for it he might indeed get the dirty end of the stick. One would think that even the Army would have run guys through some preliminary aptitude test. But it was war. There was no time for anything of any quality.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09885277626153324891noreply@blogger.com