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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Sunday, Jan. 23, 1944



Dearest Kitten:
My love for you is so sweet and lovely that when I think of you, nothing seems to matter in this world except my getting home to you. At night when I gaze at your picture, my heart stops for a few beats. It sure is great to have a wife like you. The more I think of it, the surer I am that I was the luckiest man in the world the day that you became my wife.
Although we are miles apart, it is not as though we were really separated, because your life is mine and my life is yours. Everything that I do, you are in it with me, and everything that you do, I am in it with you, I can not say that I do not miss you because I do. The only thing that will stop the ache in my heart is for me to be holding you in my arms once more. To feel your body, hear your voice, and smell the sweetness of you, would be all that I need to send me into an ecstasy of happiness. How you manage to be all my desires and able to satisfy all my longings is a mystery to me, but that is just what you are to me.
Some people desire money, others desire power, but as for me, all that I desire is to be with you and allowed to stay with you. Everything else is subordinate to you. As long as you are mine, I know that money and power will take care of itself.
I have your letters of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday before me. I hope to answer them all today. If I have to cut short on my letter, you will know that something very important has arisen and I will not have time to continue.
Thanks for being so understanding about my being unable to write as often as I would like to. There is a lot of studying that I have to do and it takes up all of my time. The studying is the Army regulations. There are five volumes of AR's so you can see what I mean.
So Lorraine does not like her new job in Conn. She should get a little army discipline and then she would appreciate a job where she knows when she starts and when she is finished for the day.
If Estelle did have another baby it would be the best thing for the both of them. They should not wait too long either as they are not getting any younger.
The day will come when we will be able to wash each other's backs again. My back must be pretty dirty by now too.
You are getting a taste of what it means to have a new baby in the family. It will always be that way in any family. The newest born is always the center of attraction.
Your mother could have a cancer, but do not let it worry you too much. It is probably something else and I hope that it is nothing serious. Has she been to a doctor about it? She should if she hasn't.
If the babies did not keep you busy, you would be bored stiff. Talking about something stiff, there is something stiff that I would like to give you right now. Um-m.
Why do you let Roland get your goat so much? You should know how he is by this time. Everybody isn't like your husband. I am perhaps too easy going for your own good.
Relatives are very poor people to have for friends. The old saying holds true. "You can pick your friends but not your relatives." I realize how you feel when they pull something mean on you, but why let it get the best of you? It isn't that you do anything wrong, it is just that you are one of the family and they do not figure that they have to treat you with their best company manners.
You are wrong when you say that I am the only one who cares about you. You would be very surprised to know how much your family cares for you, but not for you "little feelings".
I know that you will bring up our children properly. I knew you would the day that I proposed to you. Remember what I said? That I would like to have you for the Mother of my children.
Thank you for keeping me up on the things that our children do. From the things that you tell me about them, I live them over in my mind, picturing the two of them doing all the funny things that they do. I miss watching them grow up.
It is about time that Ray & Cle came up to see you. We have been over there enough that it is about time that they paid us a visit.
I am going to write to Norman today. I think that he would appreciate it very much.
There are quite a few men in my outfit that would do most anything for me. There are quite a few that I have done some favors for that they will never forget. My job is to be a father, brother, uncle, and a mean old B---- to my men. On my ability to handle them depends on how good a soldier will be, also their morale is in my hands. It is a big job to handle three hundred and fifty men and see that they all get a fair treatment and proper punishment. No matter what happens, a 1st Sgt. is blamed or credited by the men under him.
To be a good 1st Sgt. I will have to be known as "The Hardboiled Sgt." Army life is very different from civilian life. There are a great many things that I do in the Army that I would never do in civilian life. Men in the Army are hard to describe. In many ways they are like children and in others they are very shrewd and smart.
So Bobby is going to be a great lover huh?
Is my wife really beginning to handle money. By the time I get home for good, you should be a very good financier.
Are you sure that it is slacks that you wear around the house? It isn't your pajamas by any chance? I am only kidding, wearing slacks is a very good idea.
Well Beautiful I must leave you and go to Mass. I love you with all my heart and soul and my only desire is to be with you for always and always.
Regards to everyone & kiss the babies for me.
Your Loving, Devoted, Affectionate, & Faithful Husband
Bob

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