Philippine Islands

May 11, 1945

My Dearest Darling Wife,

            Hello sweet little angel, how is my darling little wife. Awful, awful sweet I know and fine I hope. You had better be dolly. Gee darling I received the three sweetest letters from you today and I was so darn thrilled to get them Honey. They were so darn sweet and precious dear, just like all your wonderful letters are. It has been so long since I got any sweet letters dear, gee but I feel so wonderful now dear. Your letters were April the twenty fourth and twenty seventh and May the first. I also got one from the folks dear. Gee darling your precious letters mean the world and all to me and they are so darn sweet. They make me so awful, awful happy dearest and make me feel so wonderful all over. Gosh Honey it gives me the grandest feeling all over when I can get your precious letters, just makes a different person out of me in every way dear. Honey you had received a letter from me the first day of your vacation and I was so glad to know that dear. Honey you are so darn sweet and I love you so awful darn much.

            I am feeling fine now dearest and getting along all right in every way now. I have plenty of everything now dearest. Well Honey it is a nice day here but it sure is hot. It has cooled off a little now and looks as though it might rain but I sure hope it don’t. Sure hope you are having some nice weather at home now dearest. You sure have had a late spring this year but I’ll bet when it does turn hot that it usually gets hot.

            Honey dear you can send me some more shampoo now the first chance you get and you had better drop some hair oil in the box dear cause we haven’t been able to get any in the post exchange for so long that hardly anyone has any so I give some of the fellows some sometimes. Gee darling you are so darn wonderful to me and always do everything in your power for me.

            Gee darling I was sure surprised to hear about Ruth, the first I had ever heard anything about it. When is it supposed to happen dear, must be pretty quick though cause you said that Roy’s Aunt was going to come out and stay with her until the time came. I suppose she will stay with the kids while Ruth is in the hospital to. I sure hope she gets along all right in every way now and don’t have any trouble.

            Well dear you was telling me about going shopping, you and Ruth, the first day of your vacation. I’ll bet it really felt swell to be free dear and be able to do the things you wanted to downtown and know that you didn’t have to get up the next morning until you wanted to. Honey you said you got a five dollar dress for one eighty eight. That sure was a reduced price and I sure do hope you like it dear and I know it is pretty to. I’ll bet that table cloth is pretty dear and that sure was cheap for one. Gee darling I never realized that such things as bath towels were hard to get. I guess I just about everything is hard to get now days. I sure hope you have all nice weather for your vacation now dear so you can go shopping when ever you want to and do the things you wanted to do while you was off. Honey you have gotten us so many nice things for our home and gee but I will be glad when I can see them all. Honey did you ever get you a box to put come of your things in like you once talked about. I sure hope you did dear and Honey you want to be sure and keep plenty of moth balls around in your things.

            Honey you was telling me about doing your washing and ironing and your household duties and how happy you would be when we get our little home. Gosh darling I can’t hardly wait until this thing is all over and we can really start our life together. It will be so wonderful when we can get our little home all finished and get straightened out dear. We will have everything fixed up so cute dear and have such a nice yard and all like that dear. Gee darling we will be so darn happy doing everything together. Just think Honey everything we do around our little home we will do together and we will have so darn much fun dear. We will have a nice start in life when this is all over dear and we will have our little home and all paid for in a short time. We are both saving everything we can Honey and it sure will come in handy when we start our new home. We are going to rent us an apartment at first dear and look around and see what we really want and where we want our home and all like that dear. We want to have everything just like we want it Honey and all the time we are deciding on everything we will be saving to. Gosh Honey we will be so darn happy doing everything together and being right together every minute of our time. Gee darling you will kiss me good bye each morning and all day you will be working around home and thinking about what we will do that evening or you will be downtown shopping or something like that and then you will meet me at the door at nite and we will be in each others arms then until I leave for work the next day, gee but it will be heavenly dear and we will be so awful happy.

            Honey dear you wrote me today in answer to my letter about smoking and I was sure glad to get it dear. You are so awful darn sweet and precious dear. Yes Honey I will bring some with me now and when ever we take a notion for something we will have them. We are going to try everything dear and do whatever we want to. No Honey that habit never did appeal to us. We are just exceptions I guess dear by being able to use them and not get the habit. I sure don’t see how some people smoke all the time. Just like you was telling me about some of the girls there at the office dear, there is guys here in this army that have the worst habit I ever saw. I have seen a lot of them light one cigarette right after another. Honey dear every few weeks we think of some little something we might want for our meeting and darling we are both going to keep thinking real hard now and let each other know of anything we think of that we might want. Gee darling we have everything planned so perfect and we will be so awful darn happy.

            Honey dear you are so darn sweet and I love you so awful darn much and you know I always will dolly. We are so happily married dearest and love each other more every day. Gee darling it is so wonderful to see your sweet little lip prints on my letters. Won’t it be heavenly when we can hold each other so tight and kiss each other so often dearest. Please take wonderful care of my precious parts dearest, gee but they are wonderful and I love them so awful darn much. Yours are fine dolly, miss you so awful darn much. You are the sweetest and most adorable little wife in this world dolly and I love you so awful darn much and you know I always will dearest.

            Well sug I guess I had better close for this time and I’ll write you as soon as possible now. I’ll be looking for your precious letters now dearest. Please be awful, awful careful now dolly and take wonderful care of my sweet little wife. Remember now dearest, chin up and always happy. Tell all hello now dearest.

            Love and more love to my sweet adorable little angel.

            Loads and loads of love to my dearest darling wife I love so much.