Letters from a Sailor

Letters from a Sailor
Clark "Buss" Gerdes, USN

Saturday, November 2, 2013

30 August 1953
"I am listening to Billy Graham at the present time. I am the only one in the barracks this afternoon. I still have to iron my white uniforms...I really have been studying this last week. I can't see going out like the other fellows...I still have to give three (3) speeches before I graduate. I have the title of one of them as, Marine Corps Navy Publicity Bureau (NRB)...So your going to Great Lakes, you want to watch yourself as there are a lot of sailors up there...Are you eating enough? Don't say yes as I know that you aren't. You better eat some potatoes..."
Buss and Ruth circa 1946

 

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