Philippine islands
My Dearest Darling Wife,
Hello sweet little angel, how is my darling little wife. Awful awful sweet I know and fine I hope. You had better be dear. Well dolly no sweet letters so far today but I am sure hoping that some will come in before the day is over. Boy the mail service is sure poor here and it sure seems like it would be improving by now but it sure isn’t. Maybe as time goes along it will get better though. Gosh Honey your wonderful letters mean so awful, awful much to me and they are so darn sweet. They make me so darn happy dear and make me feel so wonderful all over. Gosh Honey it sure is awful when I can’t get your precious letters. I get the blues so darn bad I don’t know what to do darling. I sure hope you are getting my letters all right now dear cause I know how you feel when you don’t hear from me. It will be so wonderful when we are back in each others arms I won’t have to write letters any more darling. You are so sweet dolly and I love you so awful much.
I am feeling fine now dearest and getting along all right in every way now. I have plenty of everything now darling. Well Honey it is raining here the same as usual. It has just about been a steady rain since yesterday. Boy you sure ought to see the mud Honey. The only place it isn’t muddy is in the tents and lots of them are plenty muddy. Gee but I would like to see it stop raining but I guess it will be like this until February or March. Gosh Honey it sure will be wonderful to get out of these islands and back in your sweet arms and a wonderful place to live. It will all seem like a fairy tale to be able to live in a house about and have floors to walk on and furniture and all the many, many things that a person doesn’t have over here. Honey it will be such a wonderful day when this thing is all over and I am back in your sweet arms for good. Sure hope the weather isn’t to cold at home now darling. Gosh what I wouldn’t give to be there with you honey, we would be so awful happy dearest.
Well Honey in one of your last letters you was telling me that Thanksgiving was going to be the twenty third back there. Here I thought we were having our Thanksgiving about a week early, but I guess we really had it a day late. Boy we sure are up with the times, don’t we know when thanksgiving is. It is really hard for me to keep track of the days over here cause we work everyday and haven’t have any Sundays for about two months now. Letter writing is the only way I ever know the date and I expect I get that wrong some times. Only about fifteen more days until Christmas I guess Honey and I guess the only holiday spirit is really in everything now. Do they still put up all the decorations and lights like they used to in the Plaza district Honey. That sure is a pretty sight out there.
Honey you was saying that Maxine was operated on. What was wrong with her dearest. I sure hope she got along all right now. You was saying that Bobbie, Jackie, Barbara and Janette sang in the children’s choir the other morning in church. Boy they sure must be getting to be some kids by now dear. Boy I’ll bet they have sure grown since I left. Been thirty months now since I saw any of them. Gee but that is a long time to be away from home. I don’t suppose the little kids hardly even remember me. Bobby might cause he was always a pal of mine. Jackie was still pretty small though and I never was around Thad’s little ones so very much. Gosh honey won’t it be swell when we can have our own little family. It would sure be wonderful if we could have the times we have always talked about dear. We would have been getting pretty well straightened out by now if it hadn’t of been for this war dear and it wouldn’t of been so very long until we could of started our family dear. With what we will have saved by the time I am out of here it ought not take us very long to get straightened out dear and start out little family. Gee won’t it all be heavenly dear and we will be so darn happy.
Honey you was saying that Bill Ellis gave you a large pumpkin and you cooked it and made pies out of it. Gee but I would of liked to been there and had some of that pie dear. It sure is good made of fresh pumpkin like that too. That is one of my favorite kinds of pie dear. Gee but it will be wonderful when I can eat your wonderful cooking dear. You are such a sweet little cook dear, just a perfect little wife in every way. I’ll say it will be heavenly eating right across the table from each other dear. Gosh Honey right together every minute of our time, gee but it will be wonderful dear. Darling I’ll never let you out of my sight, no sir dear not for one minute.
Darling you are so darn sweet and I love you so awful, awful darn much and you know I always will dearest. You are so sweet and so precious in every way dolly. Gee darling isn’t it wonderful when two people that really love each other like we do can really belong to each other. We are so happily married darling and love each other more every day. Honey dear won’t it be wonderful when we can hold each other in our arms and kiss each other time after time. I’ll betcha there won’t be hardly a second between each kiss either dear. Honey I know God hears our prayers and will answer them and keep us safe and bring us together as soon as possible now. Please take wonderful care of my precious parts Honey, gee but they are wonderful and I love them so much dear. Yours are fine dolly, miss you so awful darn much. You are the sweetest and most adorable little wife in this world dear and I love you so awful darn much and you know I always will angel.
Well sug I guess I had better close for this time and I’ll write you as soon as possible now dearest. I’ll be looking for your sweet letters now dear. Please be awful, awful careful now dolly and take wonderful care of my baby doll. Remember now dear, chin up and always happy. Tell all hello dear.
Love and more love to you Honey, my sweet little angel.
Loads and loads of love to my dearest darling wife I love so much.