Dear Folks:
Just found out a little while ago I’m leaving for Camp Roberts in California. We leave tonight at six o’clock on a troop train. Understand this is about 230 [miles] from Grandma. Hate to go so far from home and all of you. A little consolation is that out of my group of four hundred eighty men I was one of three to get a skilled rating. Will write on the way.
Love,
