Ft Benning Georgia
6 April 1958
Here it is Easter & a beautiful day not too humid but
hot and yellow sky’d. Spent squandered reading the History of the Civil War
(Fletcher Pratt) under old cedar tree on an abandoned farm a small hike away.
The excitement of the trip has really hit me. We leave the day after tomorrow
actually only a few short hours… then the long road to Germany. (Now into the
duffle bag goes the book.)
Aschaffenburg, Germany
19 April 1958
Well the day had dawned – long after we were up when we
departed for Savannah where we took the USNS General Alexander Patch for nine
days of ocean travel.
The ocean is a world of wonder& variety from the green
waters off the Carolinas one slips up into the cobalt blue of the Labrador
current off the Grand banks into the Grey of the North Atlantic. Late the Gulf
Stream swims (?) blue on all sides & carries into the English Channel. The
sight of birds, ships, then distant Cornwall
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