Dear Folks:

After a through search of my files, I find that I wrote you that I received the ties and the handkerchiefs and also that I wrote Aunt Maude that received and appreciated the ties. Mom, please stop worrying over the whole thing.

I am glad Ben was pleased with his gift, I am sorry it was not more, but I am not too well fixed for cash at the present. My ticket home will cost $62.79 and then I have to get the return ticket, maybe to Calif. Then in addition to that I have half a month to live and pay my way before my first pay-day. I am going to have to float a loan I think because I am going to have to spend a little while in Atlanta. You know how it is, I haven’t been home in quite sometime now.

Mom, it’s not that I don’t want to see all the good people or anything like that, but Mom, I have been around crowds in the barracks for a year and I just want to go see who I want too. Then I can leave when I take a notion. You see what I mean don’t you?

You know, I can hardly believe that I am about to become a Lieutenant in the Air Force. It is a position that has a lot of responsibility connected with it, I just hope I can uphold the trust. It’s a darned swell feeling to succeed in something worth while at last. I passed my last check-ride yesterday, it was the instrument check. (I’ll tell you all about it when I get home) Now, all I have left to do is finish six hours of night-flying and I’ll have those wings and bars.

Don’t worry about not being here, Mom, for the graduation, there is not much to see and it is all over pretty quick so don’t worry at all over it.

Mom, I implore you to do one thing for me. If Florene and Frances are going to be at the station, don’t let Anne come along. I have to keep things staright you know.

Say, who is “anne and Edna” you speak of? Maybe it is Anne Speer but who is Edna? How about letting me know about this, huh?

Mother, you were wondering why it is that I never date my letters, well, it takes me three or four days to write one and if I tried to date them, they would always be out of date when they arrived. See now?

Mom, when I get home, please have fried chicken, creamed potatoes and English peas. I have been thinking about good things like that you used to cook for many months.

We are to have our graduation dance next Monday, only five days away and then the next day is the one that counts. I can hardly wait, it just seems too good to be true.

Mom, we’ll have to get a jug of something and celebrate with eggnog or some concoction. I wish you had some good home-made wine, that is good stuff.

Say, do you remember how I used to say I was going to be a pilot, when was a little bitsy squirt. I never much thought I would ever be one. Oh! But it is a good feeling to reach the goal at last. I guess you get tired of me raving about it, but I just feel so good about the whole thing that I just can’t help it.

Better close now and write Jug. See you all in one week.

Love,

Roy