How are you and everybody? I hope you are all right because I am.

Today we went out on a 15 mile hike with a light pack but it still seems like a heavy pack to me. We marched on a road which was sand instead of dirt and in places we marched in soft white sand up to our ankles in places and in other places it was packed hard. That's all there is down here in Texas, just the Army, heat and sand. Boy, I sure was tired when I came back.

In the afternoon, we saw how to make a gas-proof chamber and played different kinds of sports. When you send me my mail, please send it by Air Mail because it's been a week since I sent you a letter and I haven't received one yet.

That's all for now, so long,