Sunday

9 July 1944

Darling Mine,

My, my but I have walked right back into a hot spot situation here and things are really humming for a while. I spent all yesterday in a theatre, from eight AM till five in the afternoon listening to many thousand words flow and trying to remember half of them. I no more than got back here than I had to grab my overnight kit and get off for a little fixit job at another base. The Germans have become active again in our area and we are hot and heavy for a change and nothing would do us more good than a little success. It is also good to have my own nose to the grind stone for a while once again. Sorry I can’t tell you all about our doings but so it is.

I am told that they have again turned in my name for the ANSCOL school and again I have no idea what that will mean. The school does not start till some time in September so there is no use worrying about it for sometime yet.

I might add that it is raining already yet this morning and has really been coming down I have been back. I do not like it any better now than before and when I think of that Texas sky I get upset with it. You won’t like this my dearest. The day after I got back they put regular leaves back on the list gain as OK. However the rules that came out with them stymies us again. Anyone who has had leave in the last twelve months in the US cannot get one. Since my recent stay was leave by ruling that delay in route is leave (War Department) it seems I again did not figure things out properly. If I had waited I could have had thirty days. But I was in the mood to get what I could when I could and was also desperate to see you my dearest. Therefore - Damn it. I do not know about the local leave situation to Mexico yet as that is coming out in a day or two. It may be later we can carry out our plans along that line. I hope that you do not become to upset over this news for it cannot be helped now.

It seems already dear that I have been here right along and I feel as though I have been back forever. This is that I am already thinking of the time when I can come back to you again. I think over our leave together and all those happy moments we had and my longing becomes acute to be back again. It was wonderful my dear and I hope that you enjoyed it as much as I did. It was so nice having you in my arms once again and just to be with you all day and night. I love you more than ever as a result. I hope dear heart that you are not to lonesome as a result. This is to be a busy day for me so I must get to it and I will be back soon with more from me to you dear. All my love and devotion Diane. Adios for now.

Edwin