June 7, 1943

Hello Mary,

I received your letter and was very glad to hear from you. How is everything out there? How you doing with your teaching on the go? Steve told me that he sent you a letter. The weather out hear is no good as it always rains and it’s too warm. My training is getting along very good so you expect to leave in the army soon. That’s pretty tough and I mean tough well if I could take it you can. But I still like to be home about the tornado. I didn’t get hurt: that was luck but four got hurt and one dead out of fourteen. I was about 33 years old a good sport well I haven’t got much to write. I don’t know where to go at nights. We go to bed about nine o’ clock and get up five o’ clock. That don’t feel so hot we only much. Twenty miles are thirty its nothing to wacky ones. You get use to it we have the best Barracks in are troop clean floors and beds and what you could call it so I have seeming you soon. I am hanging up till the next time.

Good Luck

And may god bless you and your wife.

Write soon.