June 16, 1943

My Dearest Darling Wife,

Hello Honey, how is my darling wife. Awful, awful sweet and fine I hope. You had better be dearest. Well darling no mail today yet. Gosh I sure hope I get some before long. I am still hoping that I will get some before the day is over. They have sure got the mail tied up some way or rather. Gosh Honey your letters are so darn wonderful and so sweet. They cheer me up so darn much dear and make me so happy and feel so darn good. You are the sweetest little wife dear and I love you so awful, awful much.

I am feeling fine now dear and getting along all right. I have plenty of everything now dear. I worked this morning and it was sure chilly when I got up at five o’clock. It is because it gets so hot in the daytime it just seems chilly. It won’t be many more weeks until it will be hot twenty four hours a day. I sure hate to think about hot nites because it is sure hard to sleep when it is hot at nite. I hope it doesn’t get to hot at home now dear and you be careful now to Honey and take it easy when it gets awful hot Honey. Gosh Honey remember how we used to drive around at nite when it was so awful hot. We have had so much fun together dear and it will be so darn swell when I get back in your sweet arms again.

Honey you never did say any more about Jeanette. I probably just haven’t got the letter yet but I sure hope she is getting along all right. Boy I’ll bet the kiddies have sure grown up since I left. It will sure be swell when we can have our own dear but I am sure glad we haven’t now. It would be so darn hard on us Honey and it would be that much more for both of us to worry about. We will have plenty of time after this is all over and it will be a lot better all the way around, don’t you think so now Honey.

Darling it is so wonderful the way you wrote me about the way you start your prayer at nite. It is so darn wonderful dear and I have been saying the same thing since I got your letter. Just think dear when we get together we can say our prayers together to, every thing we do will be together dear. Honey I am so darn glad we both like church and I will be so glad when I can join your church dear. I know God hears our prayers and that he will answer them and bring us together as soon as possible and that he will watch over both of us until we are back in each others arms and then he will watch over us together dear.

I love you so awful, awful much darling and you know I always will. You are so darn precious and I love you so awful much dear, my own sweet little blonde. Honey dear I am so darn lonesome for you and want to see you so bad. Honey when we do get together we will be so darn happy and I am going to hold you so tight and kiss you so much dear. We have been separated longer now than any time since we started going together dear. It is almost nine months now dear and it seems like that many years. I am so darn proud of you Honey, the most wonderful little wife in the world. I know you’ll always stand by me dear and Honey you know I will make all this up in the best way I know how. I love you so awful, awful much and you know I always will dearest.

Well darling I guess I had better close for now and I’ll write you as soon as possible dear. I’ll be looking for your sweet letters now honey. Please be careful now dear and take good care of yourself. Tell all hello, dear.

Love and more love is all I can say dear.

Loads and loads of love to my dearest darling wife.