August 7, 1945

            Hello Dot.

Well I am getting 14 days off.

 So better you should have the ice box full up. Ha. Ha. I got a very big empty spot.

            How’re all the kids having a big time I bet.

Heard the girls she on a vacation in Canada. Heard they didn’t think so much of the idea of Gordie going along.  Ha.ha. I don’t think I can blame them so much on that point. Ha.  Hope the young man is O.K. Tell him I miss him but will see him soon now.

            Hope the old man is getting his beer down O.K.  He sure is getting fat. Ha ha. I gained about 15 lbs lately. Getting too fat for my size. Ha. Since we got set up here I don’t do nothing, just eat and sleep. Ha-ha. Worked like hell to get this place in shape. When I get home I am going to drink beer and rest. Then I am going to rest and drink beer. Ha.ha.

            Hope to be out about Sept. now. Looks like a lot of us old birds are going out. Hope so any way, been in to damn long now. But I don’t believe nothing till I get the paper. Lots of the guys that have gone out are coming back now. So better off to stay in for a while yet. I don’t want to have to go through all that over again.

            Well snip will see you when I get home. So till then cheerio and all that rot you know. Some guy just told me there is a hell of a war going on some place. Ha. Is he kidding?

 

P.S. How the dog.

 

Jim.