Friday Noon!

7/3/42

Dearest Elaine:

How do you like my new stationary? I ran out of all other and I had picked up some of this when I was in Seattle one weekend last fall so I decided to use it. As I hadn’t written to you since last Monday I sort of figured I had better get busy and write so I wouldn’t get any more letters from you giving me the devil because I hadn’t written.

Honey I have passed both the Mental and Physical Exams for the Flying Cadets. I still have to go before a board of Officers and I think I can pass that too. If I do I should be seeing you within a month. So sweet, could be I’ll be kissing you, maybe a lot sooner than I thought. You see they have quit taking men for Officers School from up here and so I decided the best thing for me to do is try to get in there. I think I’ll really like it too. I was afraid to tell you before what I was planning for I was afraid I might fail the exam. But I passed it so now I think I can let you in on it too. Golly how I hope I can see you- say in Aug. Won’t that be fun though sweet? To be able to tell you to your face that I’m so very much in love with you… To kiss you breathless and starry-eyed… I can hardly wait my dearest.

What have you been doing of late? Seeing any good shows, going to a lot of dances or even dating some good looking boy and forgetting about your lover away up here and so lonely? I miss you so very much my dearest and especially on such a day. Dreary and blue and I have a day off and nowhere at all to go. If I only had you here to see, hold in my arms and love I could be happy here or anywhere. But! I can’t have you here so that makes it very bad for me. [I’m] just sitting around with nothing much to do and not much for me to write about. It is hard to write a long letter for there is so little that we can tell you. Our radio station KODK has a lot of music and quite a few rebroadcast programs from the States so we get some good programs and news from the states. But to hear our music and not be able to dance to it once in awhile… Then our theatres show pictures once in awhile that I haven’t seen but I go to most of them when I have the chance for it is something to do. “How Green Was My Valley” was playing last night and as I had seen it in Tacoma and was working until 12 last night I didn’t go and didn’t mind not getting to go.

Guess what sweet? I love you and gee how I miss you. I want to come back to you so badly. When I do you had better be ready to pack up and leave with me in a hurry. I’m sort of sudden sometimes and I’m liable to just pick you up and cart you off without waiting for permission. I want to see you so badly.

Keep your faith in me sweet and I’ll see you soon.

Especially for you

Paul

I mail the picture Tuesday.