Monday

Dec 11, 1944

Dear Sisters:

Well we are all settled down in our new apartment it is cute not big but very nice and it is just the thing for the two of us. We moved in yesterday it is on the first floor of the same house. Tonight Mary scrubbed up the floors and like that we didn’t get that done yesterday. It is laid out like this:

The stove and refrigerator are electric the 3 little rooms are little but it is just the thing for us anyway.

Today we were ask if we wanted to go into the infantry I said hell no and our engineering officer said he had studied the forms and talked to them about it and he thought he had it figured that he could fix it so we would remain in the Air Corp. I surely hope so. Boy I got a raft of letters today. I got the check O.K. Mildred thanks a lot for mailing it.

I’ll try and answer your letters now first of all yours Mame [Mildred] I also hope I can stay here until after Christmas also. Boy I had a letter from Elizabeth and she gave me a lecture about going over and that she hoped I’d go with the idea to kill and carry on in a good manner I wonder if she thinks I am going to play titley winks or something she don’t need tell me what to do I [k]now. It is a little nerve racking but there is no need to worry about it until your time comes.

Boy that’s something with Bill T. walking out on her but it wonders me that it went on this long.

Jimmy K. will be a nice neighbor I am sure.

I don’t agree with the Bible students that this is the end of the world at all but I ain ’t no Bible student.

Boy I don’t stand in at the P.K. but I buy things when I see them out there and it really takes me a few days to get what I am after sometimes. You are quite welcome for the things. Thanks for ours

II

Kathryn I’ll try to answer yours next. Maybe the weather has [been] moderate back home but it keeps getting colder and colder out here. You did a good job at selling bonds and stamps I think.

I think the mail is getting heavy that is why you did not get my mail yours took longer to come this time also.

That’s some job you heard I must say.

Don’t ask me about any of those darn poems you are making the kids learn.

You surely are a terror giving out all of those N’s but I think you must have a good reason for giving them out. They surely are terrible sentences your kids surely are dumb.

Yes, the toys and everything else are very expensive really out of bounds

Being red lined is a red line through your name on the pay book and no pay. I than had to sign the supplementary pay roll and I finally got paided to day

It’s your turn now Irma. I think you are wise to have the sweeper taken care of it.

You seem to be doing pretty [good] at getting game

I really did make out better by Uncle Elmer sending me the money

So old Geiger was killed too bad

I’ll sign off for now

So Long

Love

John