jan 5, 1942 - Don goes to Boot camp

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Boot camp in Parris Island, South Carolina

train ride from new york to Washington, then to South Carolina to Parris Island for boot camp.

"give youah hearts to Jesus boys cause youah ass belongs to me!"

head shaved
"From now on everything, the floor, street, ground, everything is the deck! "

"you mothers' mistakes!"

After a marine dropped his rifle a drill sergeant forced him to "stand erect, rifle at port arms, chanting from sunup to sundown: "I am a bad boy, I dropped my rifle.""

everything was done in the open, even taking a crap.

"Hey, Yank I thought it was cold up Nawth. I thought you was used to it!" "Ah guess youah right, ever time ah come out heah ah hear teeth chatterin'. and evra time it's nawth'n teeth. Ah dunno." he shook his head. "ah dunno, ah still cain't see how we lost."

everyone swore from chaplains to captains.

rifle range. M1 Garand Springfield/Winchester

Army soldiers were called "dog-faces" and Navy sailors were called "swab-jockeys" West point was called "that boy's school on the Hudson."

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