Co. C. 735^th Ry. Opn. Bn.

P.O. #350 % P.M. New York, N.Y.

August 14^th, 1945

Ling, Austria,

My Darling Sweetheart,

Today honey the whole world is at peace again, the world is at peace for the first time since 1934 when the Japanese started the fight with the Chinese. This is a great day in our young life Pheety, It’s a day that we can thank God that we still have each other and with us that is everything. We are very fortunate Darling that God has spared me in this war. When you stop and think of the lonely widows and sweethearts who are left alone from this war, I hope you realize just how lucky you are to be as fortunate as you are. So fortunate that you won’t just be looking at pictures I send you, but you will have me in yours arms, never to be left alone again. It’s going to be so much like getting married all over again that I’m going to you on a honeymoon when I get home. Somewhere –

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– in a cottage on Lake Erie between Buffalo and Cleveland. I know just the spot and it’s beautiful. The waves come in from the lake right up to the sandy back yards of the cottages. This is the place Dad and us stayed when we went to Niagara Falls a few years ago. I’ve got it set in my mind to go there honey and nothing will change it. And don’t forget to remind me of it when I get home. We never had a honeymoon but we’re going to have one this time Darling and I ain’t kiddin! We’ll ride the New York Central all the way to Erie Pennsylvania and from there by bus into New York State to our spot. We’ll lie on the beach in the sun and play our portable radio (I’m getting a new one) and in the evenings tell each other how much we love each other under the moon. Of course Darling you know just why I want to take you the beach, I’d get to see you in a bathing suit and you just WOW me –

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–in one. We can spend some of our evening in the Water Terrace pier ballroom in Buffalo. And some of our evenings we can take a picnic lunch to some secluded spot on the lake and love. I don’t mean like an ordinary picnic, but just like the kind you see in the movies where two lovers are on a honeymoon. This is going to be a real honeymoon, not just an outing. We’ll remind ourselves just how much we love each other at least every five minutes, on a good honeymoon you don’t just say it, you show it! And I mean show it with all our hearts. What a honeymoon that would be and that’s just what its going to be. This is my promise to my dear little wife as soon as I get that discharge. Maybe it all sounds like a big dream to you Margaret but it can be done and my mind is set on it! We’re leaving early next month for home, aren’t you happy to hear that. Our major went to Paris today for our shipping orders and we’ll know –

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in a couple of days just the exact day we leave. We have learned that the 1^st MRS (Military Railway Service) leaves first and the 2^nd MRS goes later. I am by the way fortunate enough to be in the 1^st MRS. It’s the oldest Railway Division over here. – Well I’m hoping by now that you’re on your way home so you can get my blue suit all dry cleaned and pressed for me to wear. I want you to get my good clothes ready Darling as I just can’t wait ‘til I jump out of these uniforms. Pheety if you can find them I wish you’d buy me some under wear. I’d like to have 3 pair of undershirts and drawers, white ones. The V-shape kind around the legs that fit tight like some of you pants. Size 30 trunks and size 32 undershirts. If you’re ever lucky enough to find a loud pair of pajamas I wish you get one. Maybe you could find a pair with roses on it. Wouldn’t that be something? I know my Pheety will have my things ready –

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– before I get home cause I know she’ll be anxious for that honeymoon. Won’t you honey?

How is my sweetheart anyway, I hope you’ve been feeling good and not working too hard. Honey do you still have that same old trouble with your periods. I’m always worrying about you Darling! I don’t think you should even be working when you fall asleep in you clothes and never wake up ‘til morning. It proves you’re not strong enough to do whatever work you’re doing. I don’t care how much weight you’ve gained, you’ve still no business working like you have been. But I don’t have to worry very long cause I know when you get that letter you’ve been waiting for that you’ll do what your Pheety wants you to do. When you leave Springfield you won’t have to work anymore and you’ll be getting away from that drinking environment which I dread and do not approve of one little bit. But I’m not going to worry anymore about your drinking as I have a very nice way of looking at it and that is, –

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If you care for me so much as you say you’ll get away from it all. And if you care for me that much then naturally you’ll want me when I come home and to always have me. You know this is the only thing to do. I know you well Darling cause I happen to know you really do care for me as I care for you and that is from the very depths of our hearts. Don’t forget to lay out those pajamas Pheety cause I have a whole year’s lovin saved up for you. Have you got that much saved up for me honey? Please answer and make me the happiest and proudest soldier in the world! “I’ll be seeing you” (spend your nickels on that one) in September (next month too) Darling and until then I remain your very anxious but true as ever Pheety.

All my love and kisses to the one I’ll always love with all my heart,

Your Dumpling

X XXXX XXX!

P.D. I wish I could really tell you just how much I love you but Darling when I get a hold of you next month you’ll have no doubt.