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Subject: Letter form Free State farm kid
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knormoer 18.08.13 - 05:41pm
Dear Ma and Pa,
I am well. Hope you are.
Tell my boetie Wouter and my other boetie Koos that being in the
Army beats working for Oom Piet by a mile. Tell them to join up quick
before maybe all of the places are filled.
I was restless at first because you got to stay in bed till nearly
6 am, but am now starting to enjoying sleeping late.
Tell Wouter and Koos all you do before breakfast is smooth your
cot and shine some thing. No varke to feed, no cows to milk, no mampoer to
mix or braai wood to split. Practically nothing. Manne get to shave
but it is not so bad, there's warm water.
Breakfast is strong on fruit juice, pap, eggs,
bacon, etc, but short on steaks, boerewors, chops, potatoes and other regular
food like vetkoek.
But tell my boeties you can always sit between
two dorpies that
live on coffee. Their food plus yours holds you till noon, when you get fed
again.
These city boys can't walk much. We go on route marches, which
the Sersant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it is
not my place to tell him different. A route march is about as far
as to
our postbox at home. Then the dorpies from the city get sore feet and
we all ride back in trucks. The country is nice, but awful flat.
This next will kill my boeties with laughter. I
keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near
as big as a dassie's head and doesn't move at
all. And it isn't shooting back at you like those bliksemse Venter boys
from the next door plaas. All you have to do is lie there all rustig like and
hit it. You don't even have to make your own cartridges. They come in boxes.
Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get
to wrestle with the dorpies from the city. I have to be really careful
though, they break real easy. It's not like fighting with Swart Duivel our old
bull at home.
I'm about the best they got in this platoon
except for that Groot Jan Jordaan from somewhere in the Noord Transvaal.
He joined the same time as me. But I am only 5'6 and 130 pounds and
he is 6'8 and weighs over 300 pounds, dry.
Be sure to tell my boeties to hurry and join before other okes find out
about the Army setup and come stampeding in!
Your loving daughter,
Ester
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tokage 19.08.13 - 03:51pm
nogal die sussie!!! *
