Pasadena City College

Letters from PJC Servicemen

Dear Editor-in-Chief,

Enclosed is a little poem expressing my thoughts. I would have told about my present happenings, but I am not allowed to do so at this time.

POST WAR DATE

I'd appreciate a hot dog;
A glass of good root beer
Or a rich ole ten-cent malted.
You can't get 'em over here.

I'd like to see the statue
Of the Lady Liberty.
But the peace
of New York Harbor
Is quite remote from me.

I'd like to see a stage-show
Or a semi-formal dance;
A rousing football frolic.
They don't have 'em here in France.

So, I'll go on wishing, praying
'Till they sound a real all-clear.
And I'll be over, friends of mine,
When it's over over here.
Sergeant Toe, Mims

LETTERS HOME

( Campus Editor's Note:) Shuichi Ogura, better known as "Swish", was an outstanding Japanese student at P. J. C., and was one of the first 0. M. D. presidents.

Dear Miss Durham,
For sometime your letter has been in my pad, not just stuck away in there to collect dust, hut, waiting while I have tried to think of what to write to the "Campus".
We did our share in Italy as a group in the fifth army; here in France, we've been in the Seventh Army. Battle experiences were plentiful. I prefer to go through an eighteen unit final than an eighty-eight barrage we've often "sweated" out.
Your "Chronicle" is a great help out here and really keeps me informed of the school, especially the 0. M. D.
The sun's out today for a change, but the "Wash line" is still stiff as a board. Hello to the 0. M. D. members and tell them to keep the letters coming.

"Swish" Ogura