Monday, Sept 27, 1943

Dearest Kitten

I love you so much that it hurts. Strange as that may seem it is true nevertheless. There are time when it would be easier for me if my love for you was not so strong. You see, it is hard for me to concentrate on my work when all that I feel like doing is to daydream of you.

There are so many manuals that I should study and never seem to get the time to that it bothers me, at times, when I realize how little I really know about the Army. If I were an ordinary Private, things like that would not bother me.

May I ask why you are willing to let me go out and have a good time?

Just because you are afraid that I may turn into a sourpuss? You need not worry about it. I will never become a sourpuss as long as I have you to come home to.

Do you think that after knowing and loving you, I could find anyone who could tempt me enough that I would forget the vows I made in the eyes of God?

You need never fear that I would ever do anything that would even appear wrong, and I have all the faith in the world in you.

Let's forget it now, huh? I have too much to tell you about to be wasting my time along that line.

Saturday noon I went out on a pass to Tallahassee. We went in by convoy. It cost 15¢, G.I. cost. Not bad, huh? On arriving in Tallahassee we disembarked at the USO and they assigned us to rooming houses.

Another S/Sgt from my platoon and myself took a double room at $1.25 each. It was a rooming house across the street from the "Florida Girls State TeachersCollege". A very nice part of the town. After getting fixed up with our room, we looked the town over.

It is a very small city, considering that it is the capital of the state. Very clean but also very quiet. There are no night clubs or dine & dance places. Beer is sold and that is all.

There are some dine & dance places on the outskirts but we were not interested enough to hire a taxi to take us out to one.

We each had a half fried chicken for supper and went to see "So Proudly We Hail". A very good show.

After the show we stopped in at a drug store and had a cold drink of, no not beer, but coke. And so to bed at 10:00 PM.

Got up at 9:00 AM and went to 10:30 Mass. Had roast chicken for dinner and went to the service club and played a couple of games of ping pong. Am I lousy. After that we went and saw "Action in the North Atlantic".

After supper we went to the "Capitol Building", "Court House", and the "Post Office".

And so to a show "Confessions of a Co-ed" PfffT.  Was it lousy. Still we had a good average of two good shows out of three.

It was very odd to spend a weekend in town without having you around to love.

My impression of Tallahassee: A nice place to pass through, but do not stop.

Due to the girls college, the number of teen age girls around.

Well Beautiful, we had a nice time by ourselves even though the streets were loaded with soldiers. It is surprising how good it feels to get away from camp for a day and doing whatever you feel like.

A day and a half in town and not even a beer. Surprised? I am. For some reason I had no desire for alcoholic beverages. Due perhaps to a kind of lost feeling in my heart.

Gosh but I love you Sweetheart. Yesterday and Saturday night it seemed that I should be on my way home to see you. How I miss you, but I never let it get me down.

Thanks for the letters Sweetheart just keep em coming and I will do the same.

Give my regards to all & kiss the babies for me. I am dying to see the kitchen set and hope that it may be sooner that either of us expect it.

I love you.

Your Loving, Devoted, & Faithful Husband

Bob

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P.S. I wrote to Eva.