Cherbourg, France

May 28 1945

My dearest wife:

I am sorry I didn’t write last night. I was awfully sick and I am still today. I must have a fever, for I feel so hot and still I am freezing, something like you feel when you get malaria. And my head aches something awful. I have a cough something like T.B., so I guess you can see by all my ailments that I am not feeling good. It’s been a long time since I felt this lousy. I don’t eat much either for I have no appetite, but all in all, I think I’ll live. I think it’s mostly because I am homesick for you. I have been thinking of you so much this past week. Today I finally got some mail from you, three letters. It made me feel a little better to hear from you again. I am glad to hear Allen is feeling better again. How is his foot? Today I was trying to imagine how big Bobby was , I have a picture of Allen when he was about at ½ months. so it gave me some idea. How does their weights compare when Allen was the same age, (and height)?

I was kinda shocked to death when I heard you weigh 136 pounds. You weigh more now than you did when you were pregnant. I was under the impression that you were looking the same as you did before you were married. I think you should see the doctor. I’ll bet you look cute though. You must look something like Ruth now. I’ll still take you the way you are. Maybe when I come home I can wear some of it off of you.

We are still having bad weather here. It rained again today for a little while.

I love you my dearest, so much that is working on my mind. Honest I do. I could cry right on your shoulder now the way I feel about you and the way I miss you. I get so disgusted at this army that sometimes I guess I take it out on you. Will you ever forgive me honey? I think that point system is very unfair in some ways. I think I served my time and I should go home too. Every day they seem to lower the age which still makes me madder for I am just young yet. (at least in age, but not in feelings.)

You can say that again about separation not doing either of us any good. I do miss you and love you, but it seems like I am kinda growing away from it. I too am learning to live and get along without women. Just think how we will be in a year or two. It really shouldn’t be and or you say it’s very bad.

I really don’t know what to do about buying or building a place. Building costs so much and I don’t think we could afford it. I think it foolish to go looking for a place now. You don’t know when I will be coming home, or maybe something will happen that I won’t come home. There are so many things that could happen. As for how much I will make in a week, I don’t know. I may not get my job back, and then maybe I don’t want it back. And another thing to look at, the people that are working at their jobs now will work circles around me, being away from it so long. Then they would have a reason to fire you. There is nothing I would like better than to come home and move right in our own place – that would be wonderful. You couldn’t make a loan for you have no income. It’s really a problem to work out honey. Don’t get me wrong now honey, I do like your ideas and your spunk, but I don’t see how we can do it. I like the west end of Allentown the best, its much cleaner and a better district to live, ask Dad.

I never heard of a p. 467. I know it’s not around here.

You can’t kid your Daddy about taking exercises. I must see it before I’ll believe that. I just thought of a good name for you – “the chubby one”.

Goodnight my dearest “chubby one”

All my love from the bottom of my heart.

Pres.