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Dear Hun, This is to you that I may be leaving for overseas soon. There will be 13 from Fort Bragg if all go whose names went to headquarters. I am not sure who is going us they haven't told us but some say everybody's whose name was on the list is going. Don't ask when or where because I don't know. I may go to Florence on the 12th if they let me or if I am still here. I must have my radio repaired because that is one of the articles I will have to carry with me.
I have already made my will and am going to take out Army Insurance.
I am hoping that I won't have to go on this trip. Petty has been made 1st Lt. and will leave Sat. for Ft. Huchuco, Ariz. She will be chief nurse. I wish I could go with her. She may go overseas with the second group, that is why I don't want to go with the first group. Would like to wait and go with her. Had a card from Mrs. Johnson. Her mother is dead. Was quite surprised.
Don't worry-- as we will be convoyed all the way there. We will be 28 days on the sea. We are planning on the fun we will have on the ship. We will be the first group of Negro nurses to go overseas during war. That's History, you know. Everybody is excited.
