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July 4, 1945

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 dearest. Gee darling I received the sweetest letter from you today and I was so darn thrilled to get it darling. It was July the twenty fourth dear so that was pretty good time. Gee darling your precious letters mean the world and all to me and they are so darn sweet. They make me so awful, awful happy dear and make me feel so wonderful all over. Gee darling it just makes a different person out of me in every way when I can get your precious letters. Honey dear I sure hope you are getting my mail all right now. Won’t it be wonderful when we are in each others arms dearest and won’t have to write letters anymore. You are so darn sweet dearest and I love you so awful darn much.

            I am feeling fine now dearest and getting along all right in every way now. I have plenty of everything now dearest. Well Honey it is a pretty nice day here, has been raining off and on so it isn’t so awful hot. Sure hope you are having some nice weather now dearest. Well Honey I am still on the nite shift about two more nites after tonite I guess.

            Well dolly today is the Fourth of July and gee what wonderful memories come to me as I think of the ones that we have spent together. This is our third one away from each other dear and gee how I am hoping it will be the last one. Surely we will be able to be together long before this time next year dear. I sure hope it is nice at home today Honey and sure hope you can enjoy yourself in some way. We would be having so darn much fun if I was home with you dear and gee everything would be so heavenly. The last fourth we spent together dear we were pretty sad cause we know our time together was growing short but we had such a wonderful time anyway. Remember darling we had dinner up home and we took some pictures and then we drove around out by Bonner that evening and came back and had supper and then Mac and you and me went down and bought a lot of fireworks and then after we finished the fireworks off we went to our usual place and gee darling how heavenly. Then the year before that dear I had just got the new car the day before the fourth and we went out to Swope Park and watched some fireworks displays, remember dear. Gee darling we always had such wonderful times and now it will all be more heavenly then ever cause now we are married and won’t have to leave each other one minute. On holidays like this dear we can have something planned or we can just go out somewhere around home and enjoy ourselves.

            Honey dear if I should happen to be able to get a furlough do you want me to take it. I am not sure if I can get one dear but I am asking you just in case I am at sometime in the near future able to get one. I am leaving it all up to you now darling. Six months ago I was strictly against the furlough cause I was hoping rotation would get me back dear and with a chance of staying in the states for good but now, well darling I guess I am just desperate, I want to get home so damn bad I don’t know what to do, but dear it will just about get me to have to leave you and come back over here for another year or two maybe. It doesn’t seem like they are going to put out anything new on the point system to let a guy know exactly how he stands on that. If they would come out with some set number of points and let a guy know how often they were going to make a new survey it would kind of let you know how you stand but a person doesn’t know anything for sure now. Gosh darling I am so darn tired of all this I don’t know what to do I hear there is some talk about going to start rotation again but I think it is just a rumor. I am not for sure that I can get a furlough if I should decide to take one but I am just asking you what you think just in case dearest. Boy Honey I sure would like to see them get started on this side now and get this darn thing over with and I could get out of this darn thing and forget about it all.

            Honey I sure hope this finds you feeling swell and everything going along all right in every way at home now. Darling I sure hope you are over that awful cough by now. You said in your letter yesterday that the weather was getting real nice so maybe you won’t have no more trouble now. I sure hope you didn’t go back to work to quick Honey. Please take it easy now darling and don’t work to hard now and take wonderful care of my sweet little wife.

            Honey you are so darn sweet and I love you so awful, awful darn much and you know I always will dear. You are so awful, awful sweet and precious darling. Honey we are so happily married and love each other more every day. Gee darling you are such a perfect little wife in every way and I am so darn proud of you dear. You are so awful pretty from the tips of my beautiful blond hair to the tops of my sweet little toes dear and gee but I love you dolly. Honey I know God hears our prayers and will keep us safe and bring us together as soon as possible now. Please take wonderful care of my precious parts dearest, gee but they are wonderful and I love them so darn much. Yours are fine dearest, miss you so awful, awful darn much. Honey you are the sweetest and most adorable little wife in this world and I love you so awful darn much and you know I always will dolly.

            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 precious letters now dearest. Please be awful, awful careful now dearest and take wonderful care of my sweet little wife. Remember now dear, chin up and always happy. Tell all hello dear.

            Love and more love to my sweet adorable little angel.

            Loads and loads of love to my dearest darling wife I love so much.