PUT Isaac W. Lipton

A.S.N. 44015347

Co. E 5^th Bn.

Fort George G. Meade

January 3, 1945

Miss Louise Wray

Mars-Hill College

Mars-Hill, N.C.

Dear Louise,

I am here at Meade waiting a call. I would like to be back home. I thought we would get to rest but they keep us out day and night. They had a dance last night for us boys. There were Wac’s Waves, and Spars they said. I went to sleep and they couldn’t wake me up. Say did you ever see a Spanish American girl? I met one on the train and rode to Washington with her. I’m afraid I lost my head. That’s the first one I ever seen. There were thousands of soldiers but I was [the] lucky one. That hasn’t got anything to do with the price of eggs. I would feel better if could have been with you while I was home. I know all the time it would be that way. You don’t trust me at all. You don’t know how to take me. I don’t know if my mother knows how to take me or not. After all it was my fault. If it makes any difference to you, I wasn’t home long enough to say hello. I wasn’t coming home. That’s why I wrote you. It don’t make any difference now. I will be gray when I see that part of the country again in my opinion. Well I can say I never have met a more beautiful girl than you in my life. You can write me anyway. I will be glad to get letters from you even if you aren’t in existence. Goodbye. I will write again when I get my Division and A.P.O. number.

Love always,

Ike