Sunday 5-2-43

8 pm

Dearest Evelyn:

Just to show I am thinking of you constantly I can think of nothing better than writing you another letter. Although I didn’t get any from you today. Well we lost the ball game, I got one hit and drove in a run, we lost 7 to 5. Well I guess it’s getting so you don’t miss me so much on Sundays now that the weather is getting nice and you can go visiting in the car. Well honey you go ahead and go because you can’t sit home and think of me all the time. Because as I see it this job we have to do is getting more serious all the time, so if my orders don’t come through to go to school after this next leave home I might not again be there until the war is over. That sounds awful to say but what they are doing is soon as you come back from your 60 hr leave they are shipping you to your port of embarkation. You get your advance training there and one shipped out immediately. I certainly hope that doesn’t happen because I don’t think I can fear to be away from you that long. So if it does happen I hope God will give me strength to carry on. Nobody on this earth will ever know how I miss my family and I hope I will come back to be with them. I probably will though because only the good die young.

Well enough of that silly chatter, but I thought I better warn. I hope and pray this won’t last more than a couple of years, Darling I love you so much and miss you so much you’ll never know how I do. But I hope in me fighting my son won’t have to fight, and my daughter’s husband won’t have to. Well kiss me good night and snuggle up, you can feel me if want to darling.

Good Night

Rol