Manila

October 28, 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. Well Honey no sweet letters so far today but I am sure hoping that some comes in before the day is over. 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. Gee darling it just gives me the grandest feeling all over when I can get your precious letters. Honey dear I sure hope you are getting my letters all right now. Won’t it be wonderful dearest when we are back in each others arms and won’t have to write letters anymore. Honey you are so darn sweet and I love you so awful, awful darn much and you know I always will dolly.

I am feeling pretty good now dearest and getting along all right in every way now. I have plenty of everything now dolly. Well Honey it is still raining here, has been now for about three days and nights. I sure hope you are having some nice weather now dearest. Well Honey I was sure sick from noon yesterday until this morning. I guess I must of ate something that poisoned me, cause I was sure sick. I am feeling pretty good now though, just kind of weak.

Well Honey the news today is awful and I know it will sure be a let down to you, just like it was to me. Today we was released from the casual camp and reassigned to the eight twenty first and the eight twenty first is coming home as a unit now. All the men with sixty or more points will go home with the unit and all men with less points than that are to be assigned to another outfit. Here we sweat the casual camp list out and was to be the third shipment that left here this coming week and now we have to stay here and turn all this equipment in and clean this place up. It will take at least a month or more before we get out of here now unless something changes. I’m telling you dear it just about gets me down sometimes. We was so sure of getting started for home this coming week and now to have it all knocked in the head just over night. All the damn officers that were eligible to go home left day before yesterday and left us sitting here and now we have this put on us. Here we sit with eighty and ninety some points and guys leaving every day with points clear down in the sixties. I think these officers had it all figured out before they left, the no good bastards will do it every time. When ever a man tells one he was an officer I lose all respect for him. There is a few good ones but they are so damn few that it isn’t worth talking about. I wanted to get home by Christmas so darn bad but I guess I will never make it now. Gosh Honey no one can ever realize what it really means to a fellow to get started for home after being over here so long and then to have it set back for a month or so. I guess we will make it one of these days though Honey and it surely won’t be much after the first of the year, maybe we will get a break some where. I know God hears our prayers dearest and will bring us together as soon as possible now and keep us safe.

Sure hope this finds you feeling swell dearest and everything going along all right in every way now. I sure hope you don’t have to much work now dear. Please take it easy now dearest and don’t work to hard now. Well today is Sunday dearest and gee we would be so happy is we were together now. I didn’t go to church dear cause we don’t have any chapel now and no Chaplain either. Sure hope you was able to go darling. Gosh Honey if we was together we could of went to church this morning and then had dinner at home or went out for dinner and then done whatever we wanted to the rest of the day. Gee darling it will be so wonderful now to be able to go wherever we want to and stay as long as we want to and do whatever we want to. This time of the year when it is cold and bad we will be so cozy in our little home dear and if we want to drive out somewhere we can, or do whatever we want to.

Honey you are so darn sweet and I love you so awful, awful darn much and you know I always will dolly. Gee darling isn’t it wonderful to be married and really own each other. Honey won’t it be heavenly when our day does come and we can really start our life together. Honey dear when I get you in my arms I am going to hold you so awful, awful tight and just one kiss right after another dearest. Gee darling you are so darn precious and so pretty from the tops of my beautiful blonde hair to the tips of my sweet little toes and all my very own. Gee darling I just think about our wonderful meeting all the time and it just gives me the grandest feeling all over dearest. Honey dear please take wonderful care of my precious parts, gee but they are wonderful and I love them so much. Yours are fine dolly, miss you so awful, awful darn much but they will be together before long now dolly. Gee darling won’t it be heavenly to be so awful close together and with out the towels most of the time dolly. [edited for content]. Honey dearest. Honey dear you are the sweetest and most adorable little wife in this world and I love you so darn much and you know I always will dolly.

Well sug I guess I had better close for this time and I’ll write you as soon as possible now dear. 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 now. Remember now dearest, chin up and always happy. Tell all hello dear.

Love and more love to my sweet adorable little angel.

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