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Letter Written By Marjorie Lapalme To Norman Lapalme Dated May 2, 1942, Marjorie Lapalme

LaPalme, Marjorie

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LOVELL GENERAL HOSPITAL

FORT DEVENS, MASS.

May 2, 1942

9:15 p.m.

Dear Norman,

Well how do you like Army life? Does it come up to your expectations or is it lower than you estimated? I suppose you have to drill all day with your sore arms.

I received a letter from Ma to-day. She told me your address. Are you able to see Ray? Some of the fellows here say Camp Lee isn’t too far from Norfolk. Perhaps you won’t be able to see Ray right away though. Don’t you have to stay in a certain length of …

Letter Written By Marjorie Lapalme To Ethel Lapalme Dated April 27, 1942, Marjorie Lapalme

LaPalme, Marjorie

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Ward 24

April 27, 1942

12:30 a.m.

Dear Ma,

Time marches on! It is now twelve-thirty and Monday at last. Now I can look forward to some more mail.

It is a whole week last night that I have been on nights and it has gone very quickly. I rather enjoy it now. The next 3 weeks will go rapidly I hope. Wednesday we will have been in the Army for a month. It doesn’t seem that long either.

To-day I slept from 7:30 until 2 o’clock. I didn’t even wake up once, then I started to smoke …

Letter Written By Marjorie Lapalme To Ethel Lapalme Dated April 17, 1942, Marjorie Lapalme

LaPalme, Marjorie

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LOVELL GENERAL HOSPITAL

FORT DEVENS, MASS.

April 17, 1942

Dear Ma,

I got back here at 10:30 p.m. and wouldn’t you know it would be pouring with rain and the wind blowing a gale. In fact, the wind is always blowing here. Did it rain in Greenfield Wed. night?

To-morrow night I trip on at 7 o’clock how I dread it but at least I will have it over with by the real warm weather.

I had two letters from Bud waiting for me. He is still very lonesome and homesick.

Yesterday two new girls came in. They …

Letter Written By Marjorie Lapalme To Ethel Lapalme Dated April 7, 1942, Marjorie Lapalme

LaPalme, Marjorie

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April 7, 1942

L. G. H. Fort Devens.

Dear Ma,

We have been in the Army a week to-morrow! It seems as if we have been here forever.

Yesterday, I received your most welcome letter Mom, also one from Kit, she mentioned the lovely roses Ray sent her.

Priscilla and I expect to have a long day on the 22 April and we intend to dash home.

Later 8 p.m.

Last night I went with 35 other nurses into Boston Gardens on a chartered bus to see the big Kay Kyser show. We wore our uniforms (white) and …

Letter Written By Marjorie Lapalme To Ethel Lapalme Dated April 3, 1942, Marjorie Lapalme

LaPalme, Marjorie

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Lovell General Hospital

Fort Devens, Mass.

April 3, 1942

Dear Mom,

I went on duty for the first time to-day. We get up at 5:30 a.m. The bugle blows reveille at six and shortly thereafter troops are marching down the road. There are only a few barraoks [sic] across the street and the hospital all alone at the top of a hill. We truly have to walk miles if we don’t get the bus.

We go on duty at seven—I am on a surgical ward—unlike civilian hospitals the patients have already breakfasted and they also make …

Henry Bryant, Bryant University

1863

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