Sunday 13 May 1945

Dearest Kitten:

I love you with all my heart and am only waiting for the day when we will be together again for always & always. Gosh! But I miss you Sweetheart. It is hell to want to be with someone as much as I want to be with you, and to be unable to talk to you on the phone. While I am away & working you are sleeping and vice versa. We can not even share the same nights.

Never mind Sweetheart, I figured out my points and if everything works out O.K., I only have ten more years to go and then I will be ready for a discharge. So far I have 63 points.

Thursday morning I went to Mass and then that night our restriction was off so Sgt’s Nicholson, Pawliski, Litchfield and myself went in and celebrated. What a head I had Friday morning. We hit pub call and after that we went out to a boot leggers and got some wine. After getting the wine we went to a restaurant and had steak & eggs with our drink.

We all got pretty high and had a good time among ourselves. The wise cracks were flying thick and fast and we had quite an audience listening to us. The manager hated to see us go because we attracted quite a bit of trade.

Thursday I wrote to Roland & Marion and John & Ce. It was about time that I did too.

How can I ever forget our first night as Mr. & Mrs.? We certainly had a time of it that night. What with the wind, rain, and your family taking us into Boston. What a night that was huh?

Our basketball court is all finished with lights and all. Sgt. Pawliski & Litchfield are now putting up a big flag pole. It will be about seventy feet in the air when we finally get it up. The pole is in two sections and is very heavy to handle.

Can’t remember where I was the 14th. Probably out with my blonde. Have to give Nick hell about giving my secrets away. Boy, how I would love to have you down here watching over me. Nothing would please me more than to have you around henpecking me.

Buying back the old homestead would be nice, but Mother would be putting a big expense on her shoulders and I can not see how she can do it. It would make a nice place for us to go to in the summer but yet I do not want to get tied down with anything until I find out just what I am going to do after I return home.

Sorry, but I do not play tennis. There are a few boys in the Company that do and for that reason we fixed the court up so that they can play basketball or tennis. Friday night I play basketball for about twenty minutes. Twenty minutes was all that I could stand. Boy was I beat-up.

Holy smokes! What has gotten into Bobby? He certainly is getting into all kinds of trouble lately. He had better straighten up or he will be a sorry lad when I get home.

Careful how you make rash promises. I am apt to hold you to them when I get home and there are times when it is impossible to keep a promise.

How can the young woman upstairs keep from going bugs? She must be funny if she has no other interests other than her home.

Your poor father has taken a beating now for quite a long time. He must suffer a great deal, but he is the type of man that keeps it to himself.

I do not remember of ever meeting Marion’s brother-in-law. Have heard a great deal about him, but I would not recognize him from Adam. Come to think of it I do not know Adam either.

Am waiting to hear from Mother as I am curious to know all the news from Ogunquit. Most of my old friends are probably in the services.

Well Beautiful, I have run down so I will close. I love you so much Sweetheart that it is not funny. It seems like years since I saw you last and I can not get used to not having you around. I seem to be lacking something all the time, and that something is you.

Give my regards to everyone & kiss the babies for me. I love you, my darling wife.

Your Loving Devoted & Faithful Husband,

Bob