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Monday

Clear   AUGUST 31   70

Up at 0600A. Again I got up early and cleaned up to avoid the rush. After the decks were swabbed down I brought my mattress up from the hold on to the deck. Almost everybody is sleeping on the deck now because of the smell in the hold. Aboard are 150 U.S.A. men 100 US Navy men and around a 100 Canadian Army & navy men. About fifty percent of the men are sea sick and 1st Sgt. Steare Shelly is one of the worst. So far it hasn't effected me a bit. I've been having a swell time if only I could share it with Helen Beth. Some day maybe after the war is over we can go abroad together. I bet I've read her last letter at least a hundred times. Every time I close my eyes I begin to think of her. All I hope is that I get a nice long furlough when I get back from Newfoundland. All money aboard the boat is Canadian and what cheap junk it's made out of must be old scrap tin. Had to turn my camera in so no pictures. Bed 2230A.