Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.

I was so scared nerves and trembling that at the time the other replacements moved out I couldn’t move. I said that if I had to go out there again I'd run away. As a minor he was arrested frequently.

That Board "remitted or reduced the sentence in 85 percent of the 27000 serious cases reviewed. Most of these cases were minor as were the sentences. Although over 21000 American soldiers were given varying sentences for desertion during World War II including 49 death sentences Slovik's was the only death sentence carried out.