from where I am now writing. It’s swells to take it easy once a week. About school, I won’t continue my pre-med in the army under A.S.T.P.* for an acceptance to some medical school is required. This, of course, I do not have, so the army, I think, wants to make an engineer out of me. I know you will think I am foolish, Iz, but if I am offered that chance, I do not think I shall accept. I have no desire whatso- ever to study engineering, and I know I shall only hamper my record. There’s no use in kidding myself into believing that I am even a half-decent mathema- tician. However, as it stands, I passed my first interview, and the colonel put me down as willing to accept the study of some engineering field. When my basic is up, they’ll probably ship me to some star unit where further interviews and tests are conducted, but as I said before if I can’t get medicine, I don’t want anything. I’d rather become a medical or surgical technician and get a little acquainted with the field I am interested in. Enough of that. In about three and a half weeks my basic will be over. Just think, I’ll be able to breathe without the numbers.
Write me soon, and write me often.
Letters mean an awful lot to us.
Herman
* Army Specialized Training Program
Sept. 5th, 1943
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