Letter from Joseph Langland to Judith G. Wood Langland
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Last days on the farm; will be leaving for Minneapolis with his Selective Service group. "I have decided that this year, of all years, it would be best not to be doing anything as staid and conventional as teaching. Not will all the rest of the boys doing doublesomersaults in all three rings.... some circus!" Imagines she is at Bread Loaf and that the place i overrun with middle-aged females. "I feel so damn unsettled now. Because I plan to work with the war effort somewhere this year and not be at home I have no drawer here in which to place my stuff, no bed I call mine anymore, nothing at stake in the farm... I do not know if the army will take me, or if it does where i will be in it and what I will be doing... Though many people will lose a lo in this war, perhaps a million people in America will find themselves. And that is a gain beyond price and something which dwarfs the future tax bill."
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