Dearest Sweetheart
Tonight I
hope to answer all the letters that I have received from you so far. It is
raining out and it should not be too busy a night for me. Things are beginning
to get straightened around so that i should be having a little more time to
myself than I have had for a long time.
Some of my
sergeants were just in and told me that I had just been elected President of
the NonComs Club that we are forming here. It will mean a little more work for
me if they were not kidding me. I hope that they were only fooling because I am
not very fussy about taking it over, I am in favor of the club as it will give
us something to do around here without going into town. If things work out as
we hope we will have beer and possibly hard liquor. Alcoholic beverages are
strictly rationed over here and in this way we would be able to get it easily
and quickly.
If you can
get some golf balls, please send me as many as you can get as well as the ones
that are around the house. I could get out to play golf, but golf balls are
impossible to get. See if Roland (Lemire) can pick up some second hand ones for
me. A few pieces of candy would go very nicely along with the golf balls.
By this time
Lorraine (Smith) should have had her baby. I am anxious to find out how many
and what sex it or they are. Give her my best regards and tell her that I have
hopes of writing to Arthur one of these days.
I heard of
Cardinal O'Connell's death while we were on the boat.
You sure poured
it onto me in your letter of the 25th and I deserved it. From now on I will be
a better husband to you and try to write a better letter.
The woman
upstairs is probably afraid that you might ask her to take care of the babies
and for that reason is keeping from getting too friendly. I am only kidding,
the fact is that she is shy. Give her time and you will probably get to know
her a lot better.
Of course we
have two beautiful children, look who their mother is. They just couldn't help
themselves if they wanted to. It will be odd for me to come home from work
again and find two beautiful girls waiting to welcome me.
I would give
a great deal to be able to taste some of your food right now. Most of our food
is fresh except for milk and eggs which are powdered. It is not bad tasting if
mixed properly. We get a lot of meat and potatoes over here. The bread is made
without yeast I guess. It is heavy as lead. The food as a whole is very good.
Ray would
probably wish that he had someone else for a 1st Sgt. if he did have me. It was
nice of him to write. I will have to rely on you to keep our friends for us as
I seem to lack the ambition or time to write to them. Not very nice of me I
grant you, but some day I may do better.
When
everything is over and we get settled again, I want to raise a few chickens and
cattle. The country is the only place to bring children up anyhow. I do not
mean out in the wilderness, but out in some suburban town.
Your new pen
writes very nicely. You are lucky to be able to get one. Good pens are hard to
get.
I hope that you
are right about Tessie's troubles being over. It would be a lot harder for her
with two children instead of one. Let's hope that it solves the problem, but
you can never be sure of anything under the circumstances.
Glad to hear that
Pat has lost so much weight. The Army is doing him some good anyhow. I wonder
if it will help his disposition any. He is too old to hope for anything like
that I guess.
Trying to
take my place as well as being a mother to our children is no fun, but if you
do not want them to be spoiled you have to be strict. If you let them have
their way too much it will only make it harder on yourself later on.
Send me a
picture of yourself, if you have some taken. The last large one that you sent
does not flatter you to say the least, and I would like to see if you have been
putting on weight since I last saw you, with tears in your eyes, a false smile
on your lips, or were you dying to get rid of me so that you could flirt with
all the handsome men that you happened to run across?
It is about
time that Roland woke up and left that job. Now he can go out and get a decent
job somewhere. He was crazy to pass up some of the offers that he had.
Letters # 4
& #5 are still missing. #6 & #7 arrived though.
The pictures
of Andrew are very good. Andrew looks healthy enough. The Army sure has
toughened him up a lot. Hope for his sake, that if he does go across that he
goes in the opposite direction from me.
Send me
Julie's boyfriend's address & name. I may be able to locate him.
Your letters
have been coming a couple at a time. The letter of the 8th reached me today.
I miss
watching our youngsters grow up. I must rely on you to tell me all the cute
things that they do and say. You do very nicely along that line but it is still
unsatisfactory.
Bobby will
have to learn how to fight his own battles if he wants to get anything with the
other youngsters. He is still young yet and I do not have any doubts that he
will eventually make out O.K. by himself.
Your remarks
about moving have me guessing. No doubt when I receive your missing letters, they
will explain everything. If you are planning to take a house with Roland and
Marion, I advise against it. Stay alone as much as possible. The farther you
get from relatives the better off you are.
Well
Beautiful I must close but first let me tell you how much that I love you.
Take the
number of miles that I am away from you, multiply by the distance from the
Earth to the moon, add the number of stars in the heavens and you have a fairly
accurate answer.
I could say
that I love you with all my heart, but you have my heart, so, all I will say is
I love you.
Your Loving,
Devoted, & Faithful Husband
Bob
Kiss the
babies for me.
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