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on a deployment recieving from home a letter:
always made you feel better:
mail call:
is what you lived for is all:
getting a letter from home made your day:
then for awhile you were okay:
then your lonliness again would start:
and youd be missing home and aching with your heart:
i can honestly say that i wrote more letters than anyone i knew in a twenty year career;
i really dont think anybody came close to me or near:
once a thousand letters i wrote:
while on the uss nasau boat:
but i wrote every day every hour or so:
to my family all my love to them i tried to show:
on ship was what marines and sailors lived for:
that and going ashore:
every letter i recieved i read it twice and sometimes more:
i savored every letter for sure:
i would be so happy to recieve one of the kids drawings and a picture or two:
thats when i couldt believe how the kids grew:
i watched my kids grow up in photos i recieved:
i really missed them when i was away i really grieved:
when i recieved a letter on mail call it was the time id shine:
relly a letter made you feel so good and fine:
20 feb 2000
john d. jungers
always made you feel better:
mail call:
is what you lived for is all:
getting a letter from home made your day:
then for awhile you were okay:
then your lonliness again would start:
and youd be missing home and aching with your heart:
i can honestly say that i wrote more letters than anyone i knew in a twenty year career;
i really dont think anybody came close to me or near:
once a thousand letters i wrote:
while on the uss nasau boat:
but i wrote every day every hour or so:
to my family all my love to them i tried to show:
on ship was what marines and sailors lived for:
that and going ashore:
every letter i recieved i read it twice and sometimes more:
i savored every letter for sure:
i would be so happy to recieve one of the kids drawings and a picture or two:
thats when i couldt believe how the kids grew:
i watched my kids grow up in photos i recieved:
i really missed them when i was away i really grieved:
when i recieved a letter on mail call it was the time id shine:
relly a letter made you feel so good and fine:
20 feb 2000
john d. jungers
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