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WRITES FROM PACIFIC:
Pfc. A. R. Ellison, who is stationed in the Pacific with the U.S. Marines, wrote a letter dated Sept. 20, to a friend in Estherville, which reads is part:
“For the last few weeks I have been fairly busy moving around and I haven’t much time to write to anyone, but now that I have started to settle down once more, I’m trying to catch up.
“I suppose the football team is in its stages of being developed in to another Lakes Conference champion. I hope there is good material back there for another glorious season. I have found out from experience that team work is essential. I hope the team has plenty of it this years, If so, there will be another winning team to go down in the records of EHS.
“I am in a good outfit now. It is one of the best regiments in the Marines. It has a high tradition and every person is trying to uphold it. It has proven itself in every battle it has been through. We have a superb bunch of leaders.
“About all the time that I have left so will have to close.”
Source: Estherville Daily News, October 4, 1944
