Philippine
March 18, 1945
My Dearest Darling Wife,
Hello sweet little angel, how is my adorable little wife. Awful awful sweet I know and fine I hope. You had better be dearest. Well dolly no sweet letters so far today but I am sure hoping that some come in before the day is over. Gosh Honey I have only received two letters from you for this month. The mail sure hasn’t been coming in a bit good. Your precious letters mean the world and all to me dearest and they are so darn sweet. They make me so awful darn happy dearest and make me feel so wonderful all over. Gosh darling your precious letters give me the grandest feeling. Honey dear I sure hope you are getting my letters all right now. You are so darn sweet dearest and I love you so awful darn much dearest.
I am feeling fine now dearest and getting along all right in every way now dolly. I have plenty of everything Honey. Well darling it is a pretty nice day here, plenty warm though, and the wind blowing pretty hard. A day just about like you are having at home I’ll bet dear only a lot warmer. This is a typical March day at home with the wind blowing so much. Sure hope you are having some nice weather now dearest. Well Honey I worked this morning and we change shifts tomorrow so I will be on the night shift for a week now. Went to church this after noon dear. Had a real nice service and I sure enjoyed it. It makes a person feel so much better when you can go to church and bear the word of God and I am so glad when I get to go dearest. It is three thirty now darling and I just got back from taking a shower and washing my head. Gosh Honey it would be so darn wonderful if I was home in your sweet arms. We would be so awful darn happy and everything would be so wonderful dearest.
Honey you was telling me that you and Ruth and the two boys went to the Tower the other night. I’ll bet it was a real good show dearest and I am sure glad you went. I’ll say it will be wonderful when I am back in your precious arms dearest and we can go there and sit in our favorite places just like we used to dearest. We sure were happy all those nights we went there dear, gosh Honey it was so wonderful to be so close together and steal a kiss every once in a while, wasn’t it dear. We always had a good time and enjoyed our selves, where ever we went or what ever we did dearest and darling like you said, our life after this is all over will really be heavenly. Darling we will be able to do as we please now and will be together every minute of our time no matter what we are doing. Darling I’m never going to let you out of my sight only when I go to work or something like that, no sir Honey not for one minute. Gosh Honey our furlough will just be a good idea to us how wonderful it will all be after this is all over. It will be three or four weeks Honey that we can be together every minute. We never have been able to be together over one day at a time since we were married darling and our furlough will be the first wonderful experience we have had of not having to leave each other for several days and nights.
Honey you said that one of the girls told you that I surely must like you an awful lot from the way you always talk about me. If she just knew half of how much I love you darling she would think it was an awful, awful lot. Gee but it will be heavenly when we are in each others arms and can show the whole world how much we love each other dearest. Darling my whole life is built around you, my every thought is something that will make you happy darling. I want you to be the happiest little wife in this world darling and I’ll do anything in my power to make you that way dear. I pray to God every night to take good care of you darling and keep you as happy as possible until I get home and to help me make you the happiest little wife in the world for the rest of our lives. Gee darling if only I could get back to you and really show you how much I love you. I have had the blues so darn bad this week Honey that I could hardly stand it. I want you so darn bad honey, to have you in my arms again and to hear your voice and feel the touch of your precious lips to mine. My heart longs so for you darling and Honey I know it will be beating double time when I do get in your precious arms. If only I could tell you in writing how much I love you dearest but words alone can’t explain it but dearest words and actions in each others arms can and I know God hears our prayers and will keep us safe and bring us together as soon as possible now. We were parted for six months once dearest and I thought I wasn’t going to be able to stand that and darling I’ll bet if you had been gone another couple of months I would of tried to get to you. Now darling it has been almost five times that long and, well you know how it is dearest. Oh gosh Honey I am hoping and praying day and night that our day will come before so very long now. Gosh darling we are so happily married and love each other more every day. Our love is real true love dearest and straight from the heart. I know there isn’t now or never will be a happier married couple than us dear and darling we will always be that way. I love you so awful awful darn much dearest and honey you know I always will. You are so darn sweet and so precious in every way dearest. Gosh Honey you are such a perfect little wife, so darn wonderful to me in every way. You are so pretty from the tips of my beautiful blond hair to the tips of my sweet little toes dear and gee darling all mine. Honey dear isn’t it wonderful to know that the worst of our waiting is over and that in the near future our days are coming. Please take wonderful care of my precious parts dearest, gee but they are so wonderful and I love them so awful darn much. Yours are fine dolly, miss you so awful darn much but they will be together before very long dolly. You are the sweetest and most adorable little wife in this world dolly and I love you so awful darn much and always will dear.
Well sug I guess I had better close for this time and I’ll write you as soon as possible now. I’ll be looking for your precious letters now dolly. Please be awful, awful careful now dearest and take wonderful care of my sweet little wife. Remember now dolly chin up and always happy. Tell all hello sweetheart.
Love and more love to my sweet adorable little angel.
Loads and loads of love to my dearest darling wife I love so awful darn much.