Weds. 8:30 P.M.

1 May 46

My darling Fran:

Here’s the start of another month and I wonder what this month will bring forth. For you darling I hope its brings all the health and happiness in the world but if you’re thinking as I am there won’t be much happiness until Mr & Mrs. Chester are back together again. Night before last after I wrote to you I wrote a letter to Cliff F. so I guess when he sees you He’ll tell you all about it. Last night I didn’t write because I felt bad, by that I mean I had two more shots one for typhoid and one for the plague and my arms swelled up and got so [edited for content] sore I could hardly raise them. They are still sore today but some of the soreness has left. Next week when I go out again I have two more shots one for tetanus and one for cholera and that will finish me up with shots for another six months. Its better to have the shots and take the proper precautions before I pick some disease up. Yesterday we went out to camp at Wada and did several errands such as pick up our weekly rations, P.X. supplies, leave our dry cleaning, get a hair cut etc., we spent practically the whole day out there running around. Today we had to go back out because yesterday we left one of our “jeeps” to get repaired and we had to pick it up. We are having a rainy season here and its really a mess. Its holding up our house because they can’t work when its raining. One of the fellows just came back from the station looking for mail and as usual no mail, it really makes me pissed off because I know somewhere here in Japan there is lots of mail for me. Our radio is still unfixed so we are way behind in news. We did hear today that someone made an attempt to kill Mac Arthur but we don’t know any of the details. Honey I wish you could figure out some way to get me home because its [edited for content] being away from you for so long and just think I have at least ‘till January and god only knows maybe longer. Its just two years of my life wasted, thats exactly what it amounts to dear. Jim is setting here along side of me typing a letter to his girl and we are both moaning about this [edited for content] hole they have us stuck in. Honey it seems early to be talking about Christmas but I’d appreciate it very much if you didn’t send me anything because in the first place god only knows when & how it would get here and in the second place I can’t think of anything I could use. I can’t use any clothing and I have jewelry so I wouldn’t know what to ask for. Well darling how is my “boo-bobby,” you better be taking good care of it and saving it all for your honey because I’m doing that for you. You undoubtedly know I love you and only you, I will always love my darling more than anything in the world so she’d better be a good girl. I know you will be so that takes a load off my mind. Give my regards to your mother and dad, Geo. & Blanch, and all our friends. I’ll be back with you again tomorrow night. WRITE.

With all my love,

Your honey always.