22 Aug 1944
Tuesday
Darling Diane,
Well I have really been doing alright on the mail. Two nice long letters from you and where did you get the typewriter lately. I must admit that I like it better. More writing per letter and you seem to be willing to say more. I know that it is easier.
You have
asked who I have heard from. The answer
is not a soul. I wrote to dick in
Now in answer to your question about Petey Miller. I have neither seen nor heard from her which as you know is alright with me. However I have heard of her. She has a job at France Field, what kind I do not know and it seems that she is having herself a time if reports are right. Some one came over there and said that she had said that she knew me. It seems that Petey is keeping up with her drinking and is getting around with the boys abit. You know what that means along with the hard drinking. It is a shame I know but it takes all kind of people to make a world. I thank the Lord my darling everytime I see something like that that I was fortunate enough to love and marry a wonderful girl like my Diane. Character is born in one I guess, it is not acquired. I suppose tho that if Freddy is lucky he will never hear about it. If he knew it I know that it would eat his heart out. I hope she is never fool enough to tell him.
I was very interested in your letter re the barbeque party and how I would have liked that. Also re the Captain back from the wars. Good for him for telling them off tho I cannot go along with him about R---. If the boys do much voting I believe that he will get the most but I also believe that very few of them will vote. The thing has been made to difficult. The officers are another matter around here, most of them are for a change. And as for you being uninteresting talking about that sort of thing dear I like very much to have these discussions with you about things like that. They are important to us as you will see as time goes on for there are many big changes to come in the next few years which will affect us all. And babydoll anything that affects us I am interested in. Are you going to vote. I believe that you should even if I cannot. I do not know the red tape about it there but you should be able to find out easy enough. Stick an extra one in for me. Poor me I have never vote in my life.
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I am interested in the reactions that Geo may have given you about the place here. I know that he is reluctant to express his opinions down here for obvious reasons even to me. Then too I would like to know what he said about my outfit (if he did). I cannot agree with him about getting the school in view of what Jimmy said when he got back. But we have discussed that already haven’t we. I really believe that I will be here the full two years now dear. So be it and then back to you my darling.
You must think that I am a wizard. Get that gasoline in large gobs and then just a set of new tires. All the same I am willing to try with push and shove. If they can be gotten I will gettin’ them. It would be wonderful that way dear but I won’t know wether it could be worked with leave at both ends like that. I will certainly not try anything that would jeopardize the plan you can rest assured. I am for the arms of my darling this fall if moving the Rock of Giberalter is necessary.
I think that it is a good thing that you get so much rest dear. I also think that you should always make it a point to do so for I have noticed that you thrive much better when you do. Your reserve my little punkin’ is not as great as you might think tho there is nothing wrong with you little bug when you are fully rested. And I mean nothing.
And as for having that picture in my room—that is you everytime I look at it dearest and to me you are a wonderful site. I don’t have to use my imagination either. Just the face part. And as for a photo you speak of with a rose in your hair—what I wouldn’t give to have it. If it wasn’t that someone would have to take it and develope it I would hold you to that. However I carry a very vivid mental picture of you dear heart very vivid in both my heart and my head. I really haven’t changed about those things as you say but you cannot keep a guy from dreaming about his sweetheart can you? And darling—who says that you cannot always remain beautiful? I guess that I ought to know and you have a long long time to remain so—and I shall reveal in revel in every minute of it for dear I am very proud of you in all ways but in that way I am proud all alone just something between me and myself and from which I receive a great deal of joy and happiness. As for loving you always I cannot bring myself to even conceive of anything else and if you love a one like you they are always beautiful and besides by that time they will no doubt have a system what with science and things. What do you think? BUT if your threats are to be taken seriously maybe I won’t want them to have a system for I can see that you are going to give me a bad time come leave. “Barkus is willing” and have mercy on his soul. All I ask for dear is that I can make you happy in this world.
Speaking of
beautiful things that George got I believe that he got some of the things thru
an officer in one of these other countries (jewelry I mean)
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If I can get the plates I suppose that you want eight or ten. Cobalt blue, I will remember that. It is the deep blue is it not. I am not much of a color chart as far as remembering goes. I know pastel blue alright for that is your favorite color then there is balack and white/ and the stop and go signs. Oh well I will have someone show me cobalt.
Was Geo
planning on going to
Dearest I have enjoyed the chat and you don’t know how I enjoy some of the little intimate conversations that we have. I am only sorry that in the last few years that we have not been able to have many more of them. We always will in the future I can assure you. I love you my darling, immensely. Adios till another time.
Edwin