Sunday A.M.
June 13, 1943
Dear Mom:
Like I told you before, Bob arrived out here and was put in barracks just across from my barracks. It was a fortunate accident being thrown this close together after being so far apart.
How did H.L. get washout? I thought he was the one who was going to be General to hear Janie tell it, I just can’t believe it could happen to him. The other boy was Clarence Gindelle, I wonder what washed him out. He is a good boy.
Mother, I received my picture of Anne and I and it is pretty good of both of us. It does not do her justice, I guess you think I am goofy saying that about all her pictures but she really is about the prettiest sweetest thing you ever saw. You’ll be crazy about her when you meet her and you will someday not so far away.
I am going to send the picture home just as soon as I can get something to ship it in. I want to keep it for me and Mom don’t be showing it around to everyone please.
Say, have you told anyone about Anne and I? How did Frances Fechter find out about her? The last letter she wrote me she said something about “she must really be pretty to take up all your time,” she didn’t mention any names but she sounded as though she had heard something. Have you told them anything?
The trip you mentioned was the one up to the mountains wasn’t it? We were the first bunch of boys to get taken out like that for special training. We had a good time and not such a hard time. We got some very good training that may come in handy someday. We were really close to nature, sleeping and eating in the open all the time we were out there. I did not even get a cold and it rained on us one night, see your son is getting tough a little bit at a time. Mom, I now weigh 155 and when I came into the army I only weighed 141, at last I am beginning to gain a little, I am really glad too.
Yes Mom, I can get all the candy, chewing gum, coca colas, ice cream and anything else that I want out here, they have 3 movies on the post that show first seen pictures and it only costs us 15 cents to get in. We will be out of our 42 day confinement about the 21st or 22nd of this month, maybe a little before. You never did write me if the “Breakfast at Sardis” came on on Sunday or not, I am going to try to go there if I can and try to talk on the radio to you. Let me know about this Mom.
You asked me when I would get my wings if I don’t wash out, it will be about the middle of next January or thereabouts, maybe before, maybe after, there are lots of things that can happen.
I wrote Dr. Lorve the other day so you can quit worrying about that, I wrote him a nice letter, well I tried to make it nice, I don’t know how well I succeeded, I tried anyway.
Mom, I am planning to send my letters home too, now don’t be throwing them away either just leave them in the box and have them for me when I come home, I want them all. Mom, just leave them in the box unopened so Ben and his pals won’t be reading them and losing them. Now Mom I am trusting you to do this for I want them so keep them as I ask you please.
I have gotten about 30 or 35 letters from Anne and I have only been here about that many days. I sure am crazy about her Mom, she’s the one for me, I know it. Don’t worry, nothing will come of it until after the war.
See you all in a year or so.
Love to all,