Feb 16, 1944 Co C 735^th Ry. Open. Br.

7:30 PM Wed. Camp Plauche

New Orleans (12), La.

My Darling Pheety,

Oh Darling I feel a lot better now. Today I received your two lovely Valentines They’re certainly beautiful Darling and the verses on them just thrill me. I just know you mean every word they say. I almost thought my Pheety had forgotten me on Valentines Day but she didn’t.

I still am disappointed that you haven’t written me anymore letters. I sure wish you’d tell me why you stopped all at once. Don’t you love me enough to want to keep writing me. I guess you just got tired of writing your Pheety every day and would rather give something else your attention rather than your Pheety.

Just count the letters I’ve mailed you. You sent me 11 letters so far, not counting your two lovely Valentines. How does 11 letters count against how many I wrote you Pheety?

Well Darling we’ve been having gas mask practice, rifle sighting, hikes and hand to hand commands fighting the last weeks. The work isn’t very hard and our days are quite interesting.

Darling I bet you’ll enjoy it down here since it is so cold and slushy up home. It’s just like summer down here and the moonlight nites are like they are on an island in the Pacific. I got a letter from my Dad Monday and he was telling me about what a big winter you all are having.

If you can come Friday I want you to bring all the letters I’ve written you Darling, just for me, will you. I’d like to read them over again and don’t want them laying around the house when you’re gone. As I told you before, I’m afraid of some of the things I’ve said in two or three of them.

Well my Darling I do hope I get a telegram from you at least tomorrow or Friday telling me you’re coming. The reason I think you are coming is because if you weren’t coming Friday I should have already received a telegram from you saying you can’t come.

Please come right away Darling ‘cause if you put it off too long, you may never see me till the war is over. They plan to have us overseas in a few weeks and it’s not likely we’ll get a furlough at all. A lieutenant told me the other day that the army could send us overseas tomorrow and finish our training in England, and they have been doing it to some battalions. So you see Pheety why you should even be here right now.

Please write me Darling because I worry so about my Pheety and I wish you loved me as much as I love you. You don’t because you won’t write me anymore and I write you about everyday. Can’t wait to get your telegram Darling.

Your lonesome Pheety,

Vincent

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