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TheLetter

PrivateHiceE3FirstClass

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It was the worst time eye can remember all the rain the men were turning graves were leaving bones the diggers left them bones on top and ran to shelter was a poncho given by a Major in the service trying to help a grunt to score you see eye was on the firing line to hit the targets for a scoring they were testing me. The thing made a surface and eye hit every target there eye cried when eye missed them only three eye took my eyeglasses off and wiped them too late for eye to see they made me marksman there was a note.ed on the paper said you only missed three targets to add them up to expert sorry. It was the rain as eye am a very good shott you must remember all them days before the rain was good the targets down the range fell down. Eye placed the Majors Poncho on the corner of my bed was made eye bounced a quarter off the blanket then hopped onto the thing to read the answered mail call that day had finally came. The Letter said : ed.note.ed (this is all eye can remember of what she wrote so smitten was eye smote) you are a soldier now and she said it with a smile and eye have no need of a soldier as a lover you are now just incomplete Dear John dear charles you cant come home to love. SO sad a thing so sad it kept me drunken in my beers for far too many days and years have lost the will to live its over when they give them Dear John letters to them men. Eye had all sorts of plans to fight the past it disappeared in one small minute of an afternoon. They all get married in June. They all send them Dear Johns a letter in April. Monsoon. Rain is falling tears of Angels. Landing on them inked words in them Dear John Letters.