JMJ

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Back from Korea 52

Dear Readers,as i hitch hike around to go places.The driver of a car looked at my Honored CIB and said your CIB and a dime will get you a cup of coffee..so much for CIBs (Combat Infantry Badge)...The stay in the hospital was interesting,,Phillip Meyer S/sgt Ret..
                                                                                JJ
Gainesville/Cedar keys Florida
May 1952,,,Phillip Meyer S/sat ret
                                                                      May 52
After the dinner we were free to go home.I got paid and caught a train to Gainesville florida,,While I was in Korea they never sent me a letter or a card,...But I went back,,They lived in a trailer park,..When I arrived I slept on a couch.Then I went to Cedar keys to see the girl I liked,Her name :Joyce Frank" Her father lone  me a jacket so we could go on a date,What a disaster.She told me to get in a car the back seat..Up front two other boys as they drove around the Island she was kissing the boy in the front seat..When we got back to her house,I went back to Gainesville.Then my Foster Mother told mer she had spent all the money I had been sending home in an allotment,So all I had was what I had been paid,,I told my Foster father I was going to New Jersey,,The way I said it I think he knew I would never come back again..
In New jersey I got united with my sisters Mary and Flora..The first time I saw Nelson he was sitting at desk
with a book he was studying ,,Nelson took me fishing by a bridge..We were close to the bridge and I heard a car back fire,I near most fainted,The sound brought back memories..So I got united with my Mother ,sisters and brother.After a couple of days I reported to Fort Meade Maryland to the 2053rd Supply Company

                                                                     Fort Meade
   I was a PFC and I had been assigned to a warehouse where new soldiers came to get the cloths issued to them,,I worked in the shoe dept...Most of the time a soldier new the size of his shoe and the boots would fit him,,In the mean time on the company street I met soldiers from the 5th RCT coming back and they told me how lucky I was,,They had gone on a hill called "Heartbreak ridge" They said each day a American soldier was wounded or killed.it was a very bad place,All was going well when one night I had a strange nightmare
object in my dream were to big or to small,,A small string felt like a rope..nothing was the true size it was supposed to be,Then I reported for work.I started to feel sick.I lay down on a large bag of clothes.The Sat came by me and ask what was wrong.I told him how I felt ..Then he said//"get this soldier to the hospital he has malaria guess he must have seen it many times, The ambulance came and took me to the hospital.
After I had been checked the conclusion..I had Malaria,tapeworm,round worm,and hookworm all at the same time...I was sick,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Phillip Meyer S/sat ret.