I see out in California, at Paso Robles, there is already a camp set up. It doesn't yet bear the name Camp Roberts, as it will in about a year and a half when Homer's father arrives for basic and advanced infantry training. A little ways up the coast Camp McQuaide has become Fort Ord. Our friend Joe Stilwell is still whipping the 7th ID into shape as far as I know. The Barbara Tuchman bio I excerpt from now and then is silent for the moment, since he is out of China.
Speaking of Stilwell, I read a quote from him yesterday that makes me want to find the diary which it cam from. It may be an entertaining read.
In reference to FDR in early 1942 he says that “the Navy is the apple of his eye” and “the Limeys have his ear,” while Stilwell see FDR’s view of the army as “the stepchild” who has only “the hind tit”.
Apparently his writing is just as abrasive as his talking.