Sunday Night

Hello Folks:

Your boy is quite a ways from home now and he ain’t kidding one bit. I have really had a long train ride. I thought that I would never get out here.

I start my classification tests next Tuesday morning at 7:30 A.M. In about 2 weeks from now I will know what kind of training I am going to get yet, they will determine from a series of tests whether or not we are suited for Air Crew. I hear the tests are pretty rigid too, I sure hope that I make it. It will really hurt if I don’t.

I sure did hate to leave Decatur, Ill. Bob and his Mother were at the station, Anne was there when we left also. She cried Saturday morning when I left her because she thought that was the last time I would see her then, but she was able to see me at the station. She did not cry because I was just leaving her then but because I was going so far away and she said that she may never get to see me again. She sure is sweet Mom, I hope you get to meet her if she comes down South. She says that she is coming to see you if she is anywhere near Atlanta and I think she will.

Mom, she is the girl for me, I know. I am going to marry her someday when the war is over, I hope. She wrote me that she is learning to cook and she can already sew, she has a lot of clothes that she made herself and they are really classy. She is a great girl Mom and we get along swell together. She wrote me that her boy I am. She said that I really made a hit with her family. She has a brother that is in the same thing in the Air Corps that I am and I met him for a brief moment in Kansas City, Mo. He wrote her that I was a swell-looking fellow.

Mom, you should see me now, I have really had my hair cut off out here, it is just about ½ inch long. I am really getting brown already and I have only been here 4 days. Next time you see me I will be quite abit different I’ll bet. I am gaining weight slowly and getting good and hard all over. This war will make a man out of me I believe, I am hoping so anyway.

Mother, we have been told that we will be out on the West Coast during our entire period of training, so it looks like I will be like Corley doesn’t it? I knew that when I heard that we were going to Santa Ana. We can’t all be near home I guess. If we could get home every week-end we would not get very much done in the way of study and that is what we are out here for. It would just be bad every time we leave or bad to go again.

Mom, it is getting late so I will be closing now. Lots of love to you all and don’t worry about me, I’ll be all right.

Love,

Roy