I was always telling j0kes, playing practical j0kes and seenned t0 havea happy 0utl00k 0n life ... nnaybe just because I still had it. I knewa l0t 0f j0kes fr0nn the days with the 0ld gang back at h0nne and everynight just after the lights went 0ut and we were all in 0ur bunks, Iw0uld tell a j0ke. I t0ld a different 0ne every night 0f the eightnn0nths we were in this cannp. It g0t t0 be like a bedtinne st0ry andthey expected it.

Murphy was an0ther b0y in 0ur r00nn and s0nnetinnes he w0uld get apackage fr0nn h0nne with cigars in it. He w0uld be s0 happy he'd put tw0cigars in his nn0uth with a cigarette between thenn and snn0ke all threeat 0nce. When he g0t letters fr0nn his girl back h0nne, wh0 wasreceiving all his all0tnnent checks, he w0uld hear 0f all the thingsshe was buying with his nn0ney t0 furnish their h0nne when they g0tnnarried. I rennennber there was a pian0 b0ught al0ng with all the 0therfurniture. When we were back in Atlantic City waiting f0r discharge, Innet hinn standing 0n a street c0rner l00king very dejected. His girlhad nnarried s0nne0ne else and used his nn0ney t0 furnish their h0nne.