Tues. 9:30 P.M.

28 May 46

My darling Fran:-

            I’m due for a bawling out honey, you know why I didn’t write again last night. We got home so late and I was so sleepy I just put it off until tonight. We all went out to MG. to see a movie and it was quite long because they showed us four shorts before the feature. The feature was “Three Strangers,” a murder mystery with Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet. I guess it’s an old picture but it was good anyway. I received one letter from my darling today dated May 17th also received April “Esquire” from Verna. Mike and I took some pictures on Sunday and today we finished the film so about Thurs. or Friday I’ll send you some pictures. I know you’re always anxious to see some pictures and I’m also glad to have them to look back upon. The news clipping you sent me was news because I hadn’t heard anything about it. I am more or less contemplating a job similar to that but only under one condition, that the job is in the states so I can have my darling with me. I wouldn’t go off in some foreign country without you if I never got a job. Maybe that’s the wrong attitude but that’s exactly how I feel about if after being away from my darling for so long. Today I went out to M.G. for our perishables so now our ice box is really jammed full of meat and butter. Sorry to hear you are having a hard time getting butter because we have it to waste. Today we got 26 lbs. and we had about 10 lbs and that only has to last us two weeks. In addition to that we got twenty chickens, four pork loins, two whole hams, a whole case of stewing beef, and about 5/6 case of roasting and frying beef, and about 35 lbs of grade A hamburg, 1/6th cake of cheese, one half crate (15 doz) eggs, one half crate of grapefruits beside all our canned goods so as you can readily see I shouldn’t be going hungry. We get that same ration every two weeks. The weather has been very nice so more than likely they will finish the house by June 5th. We will all have our own rooms so I expect to fix mine so its very comfortable. This is where I’ll really make my honeys pictures shine. I think I’ll hang several “Esquire” girls on the wall with my darling planted right in the middle. We are certainly the envy of everyone around here but after all as long as we have to be stuck over here we might just as well live comfortably. Honey I think I have answered all your questions in my previous letters but in case I didn’t just ask me again. We had our little bridge game after supper tonight and even though Mike is just learning we beat Paul & Tanaka anyway. Well honey I’m sure you know by now I love you more than anything in the world, Don’t worry about me coming home as soon as possible because when they say go, I’ll really show them how fast I can move. Tell your mother I’d much rather be homing helping her with the lawn than be over here. Give my regards to your mother and dad, Geo. and Blanch, and all my friends. Be a good girl for Eddie and keep writing.

                                                                        With all my love,

                                                                                                Your honey always.

 

*Editor’s note: included in the envelope was a newspaper clipping reading:

Mrs. Edward Chester received a cablegram yesterday from her husband, a private with the U.S. Army in the CIC, reporting his arrival in Tokyo on March 14. He left the West Coast around the first of the month. Pvt. Chester has been in service eight months.