Joe was once again in Dutch!!
HEADQUARTERS EAST COAST PROCESSING CENTER
Service Command Unit No. 1114
Camp Edwards, Massachusetts
6 April 1945
Mary W. Garner, SK1c, USNR
Supply Depot, U.S. Naval Air Station,
Minneapolis, 6, Minnesota
Dear Miss Garner:
Your letter dated the 31st of March 1945 is acknowledged.
Your brother is presently in confinement at this center because of his recent absence without official leave. He was examined by competent medical officers and was found unfit for further military service. He will be discharged from service in the very near future.
For additional information we suggest you write him at the following address:
Pvt. Joseph R. Garner
20 343 522
ECPC SCU1114
Camp Edwards, Mass.
Very truly yours,
Charles Johnson
WOJG USA
Asst Adjutant
E.C.P.C.
I had a similar experience when I received a small box in the mail from one of my Aunts As I started reading I realized it is the diary my grandfather kept for the three years my father was in the Marine Corps during WW II, including when he was wounded at Iwo Jima. It gave me insights about my grandfather's thoughts, fears, and joys. My grandfather was a quiet man, I wish I would have read the diary while he and my father were living. I am collecting family and news photographs to illustrate the diary entries. David
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