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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Letter #5, Sunday 4 June 1944



Dearest Kitten:
This being your birthday, I must write a nice long letter to you. I may get run down before getting very far but I will do my best.
I love you very much Sweetheart and because this is your birthday, I have been thinking of you all day long. It has made me rather lonesome. Every night before falling asleep my thoughts always wander back to you and home. How I pray for the day when I can start back home to you and my little family.
Before me is your 12th, 13th, 14th and two V mail letters of the 19th & 21st of May. Thanks for writing so regularly. Letters from you are like pay day, always look forward to. Keep them coming.
Peter is going to be a hellion if I know anything about children. He will be spoiled also, unless they have another one right away. I'll feel sorry for him if he stays at your mother's much longer. He will get used to having a lot of attention and when they move away he is going to miss it and Eva will have her hands full.
Was happy to hear that Bobby was feeling much better. Poor fellow. I feel sorry for him. The sooner you have his tonsils taken out the better off it will be for both him and you.
Glad to see that you have not changed. I am referring to your changing the house all around. When spring comes around it is always the same old story, change the kitchen around and also the living room. All is still normal on the home front.
Your description of the cupcakes made my mouth water. Just see to it that when I get home again that you take good care of your husband's stomach.
St. Rita's procession must have seemed like a children's show. Remember last year? I was home on a pass. We have been extremely lucky since I have been in the Army. A lot of men never got back to see their people after they reported.
It must be all over for Lorraine by now. I hope that it is a boy. I know that you will let me know as soon as possible. I am anxious to know. Give her my regards.
Yesterday I sent a cablegram to you. I hope that it was not too long in reaching you.
I had to give up with that other pen. Now I will try this paint brush. My good pen is down in my barracks and I am too lazy to go after it.
Today being Sunday, I was a very good boy and went to church again this morning.
We got paid Friday and I did very well for myself. From now on though, I will be doing very poorly. Fourteen dollars a month is not very much, now that we are going to have a NonCom's Club. By the way I was elected president. It is an honor but it will take up more of my time than I am happy about. We are going to have a building put up across the road and in view of the camp for us. The reason is so that we can have liquor on the premises. Being Sergeants, we are allowed a ration of liquor. Liquor is very hard to get over here, and only sergeants and officers are allowed to purchase liquor.
I am getting used to the money over here. The main draw back is that the paper money is worth more than American money and a person does not realize how much he is spending sometimes. A pound note is worth three dollars and twenty six cents. Spending a pound note is like spending a dollar, or so it seems. I may take ten more dollars for myself and drop your allotment to seventy five instead of eighty five dollars.
It has been too long since the last time that I took you in my arms and loved you to my heart's content. How I wish that it was possible for me to do just that right now. M-M-M-M Oh! Well soon maybe.
Give my regards to everyone and kiss the babies for me.
Your Loving & Faithful Husband
Bob

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