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Dear ma and pa

Its December 19th in korea. Now, I wish I was home with you for Christmas more than anything else. santa has not made an early visit bringing me a Section 8. So, Im here. I am including several new pictures showing my latest outfits.

How are things back home.

I hate it here!

Its very busy here cause of the wounded. And the cold. Living in a tent doesn't help much. I sleep with my best fur coat. That helps some.

Did you hear anything new about Uncle abdul's trying to get me out of here? He told me he knew a congressman. And that the congressman owed him a favor

It doesn't feel much like Christmas, here. Not many decorations. BJ and Hawkeye ordered an artificial tree from sears. Not here, yet. In the mess tent, Colonel Potter asked us to put up some kind of decorations. He suggested we might use the envelopes from letters to come up with decorations. people seemed to like the idea

I hope you are having a great Christmas. Miss you so much.

I hate it here!

While we are busy, we do have some free time. Im working on something new section 8 wise – but it will have to be much warmer to try it. Since someone else might read this, I wont go into details.

Major Burns. I think I told you about him. He's the rottenis person in camp. So, I was serving lunch and I spilled some chocolate pudding into the mashed potatoes. I said I was sorry. He yelled at me, he said if wasn't so distracted by getting a section 8, id be more careful.

Then, he yelled at me that I was going to get another 30 days of KP.

Colonel Potter who is a really great guy was behing a couple of people behind major burns. He said to ignore major burns. He then told burns that he must have better things to do than yell at enlisted people. The Colonel is a good egg even though he won't give me a section 8. I hate it here!

We play a lot of poker. Last night, I won 30 dollars but I will probably loose it tonight.

Father Mulcahy is a priest. He is working on having a Christmas party for the kids in the orphanage. Those kids have it really rough. This war is awful. Kids shouldn't have to worry about stuff like that.

I am writing this letter in the Mess tent. Major burns and major Houlihan are sitting at the next table. They seem to be together a lot.

Earlier today, I was in post op – the place the wounded go after the doctors have done surgery. One was from Dayton so we had a lot to talk about. He had a lot of surgery-but I don't want to get into details. I don't even want to think about details.

I hate it here!

I love and miss you all and hope I can be home soon.

Love

Max