August 7, 1945
Hello Dot.
Well I am getting 14 days off.
So better you should have the ice box full up. Ha. Ha. I got a very big empty spot.
How’re all the kids having a big time I bet.
Heard the girls she on a vacation in
Hope the old man is getting his beer down O.K. He sure is getting fat. Ha ha. I gained about 15 lbs lately. Getting too fat for my size. Ha. Since we got set up here I don’t do nothing, just eat and sleep. Ha-ha. Worked like hell to get this place in shape. When I get home I am going to drink beer and rest. Then I am going to rest and drink beer. Ha.ha.
Hope to be out about Sept. now. Looks like a lot of us old birds are going out. Hope so any way, been in to damn long now. But I don’t believe nothing till I get the paper. Lots of the guys that have gone out are coming back now. So better off to stay in for a while yet. I don’t want to have to go through all that over again.
Well snip will see you when I get home. So till then cheerio and all that rot you know. Some guy just told me there is a hell of a war going on some place. Ha. Is he kidding?
P.S. How the dog.
Jim.