September 19, 1944
My Dearest Darling Wife,
Hello sweet little angel, how is my darling little wife. Awful, awful sweet I know and fine I hope. You had better be dearest. Well Honey no sweet letters so far today but that was such a sweet letter I received yesterday dear. Gee darling your precious letters mean the world and all to me and they are so darn sweet. They make me so awful, awful happy and make me feel so wonderful all over dear. Gee darling it gives me the grandest feeling when I can get your wonderful letters. I sure hope you are getting my letters all right now dearest. Please don’t worry when you don’t hear from me for quite a while sometimes dear. You know I will always write you as soon and as often and as much as possible dear. Darling you are so darn sweet and I love you so awful, awful darn much.
I am feeling fine now dearest and getting along all right in every way. I have plenty of everything now dearest. Well Honey it sure is hot here today. Gee but it has been awful here the past two weeks or so. I had such a headache last nite I could hardly go to sleep. This sun shining on this white coral is sure hard on a guys eyes to and I expect that is where I got part of my headache. That is something really unusual for me cause I very seldom get a headache. Honey you haven’t had hardly any trouble since you got your glasses have you. You still wear them don’t you dearest. Well Honey we got a little job in and are working shift work today. I go to work at six o’clock tonite. After a fellow stays over here so darn long this climate gets you down so that you just don’t feel like doing anything. Gosh when I first came over all the fellows really worked and what I mean stayed right at it all the time but now no one has any ambition to do anything. It is just to darn much for a guy to keep going after you are over here so darn long. I guess this thing can’t last forever though. Gosh Honey it will be such a wonderful day when I am back in your sweet arms and can forget all about this thing.
Happy birthday to darling. Gosh Honey what I wouldn’t of give to be able to awake you this morning with a big kiss and said that to you. Next year it will be that way Honey dear at least we are sure hoping so and I really believe that if the war isn’t over that I will surely be back on rotation. We have had two or three guys that have went back now and they all had around thirty two months in and I think they will be getting back with less time than that now before long. But by this time next year I will have that much time in so darling we really have something to look forward to. Gosh Honey it will be so wonderful to spend all of our special occasions together and be able to celebrate them in any way we want to.
We were having such a wonderful time and were so darn happy this time two years ago dear, Gee darling in each others arms and had just been married a week exactly. I spent all nite with you dear and then the next day was Sunday and then Sunday nite. I think that was the weekend that it was so cool honey. We were so snug that nite wasn’t we dear. Darling I was just thinking about the first birthday present I got you. It was that gray and wine colored sweater set, remember dear. I think that is about the first present I ever got you dear. Gee darling I will be so darn happy when I am back in your sweet arms and can get you something nice like I want to. It always made me so darn happy when I could get you something you really wanted dear. I tried to send you some flowers for our anniversary and your birthday to honey but you can’t even do that here. Things get worse every move we make it seems like. I sure hate to think about Christmas dear cause there isn’t a thing I can send you this year. There isn’t anything to make anything out of even. I know you understand though darling, gee but you are so wonderful in that way and in every way dearest, Honey dear I am hoping you the happiest birthday in the world but I know our birthdays won’t be happy ones until we are back in each others arms dearest. Honey we will sure make up for these our first one back together and it will be one of the happiest birthdays we ever had darling.
Honey dear you are so darn sweet and I love you so awful, awful darn much and you know I always will dearest. You are so darn sweet and so precious in every way dearest. Darling I had such a wonderful dream last nite I could see you so plain darling, just like things used to be when we would go out there by Rogans, honey. It was so real darling, just like we used to do. Remember he Kleenex you always used darling, gee wasn’t it all wonderful. Do you ever have any dreams like that dear? Gee but it will be so wonderful to put the two parts together again dear. I’ll bet it won’t be many minutes after we first meet either Honey, how about it. Darling your wonderful letters yesterday and day before had such sweet kisses on them, gee but it is so wonderful to see your sweet little lip prints dear and it will be so heavenly when we can put our lips together and squeeze each other so tight. Darling I know God hears our prayers and will look after us in every way and bring us together as soon as possible now. You keep that sweet little chin up now angel and don’t get discouraged now dearest and I know everything will turn out swell in everyway for us dear. You are the most adorable little wife in this world dear and I love you so darn much and always will dolly.
Well sugar I guess I had better close for this time and I’ll write you as soon as possible now dearest. I’ll be looking for your sweet letters now dearest. Please be awful, awful careful now dolly and take good care of my sweet little wife. Chin up now dearest and always happy. Tell all hello dear.
Love and more love is all I can say dear.
Loads and loads of love to my dearest darling wife I love so awful, awful much.