December 19, 1944
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310.63.1-4.2016 Transcription
Somewhere – France
With 7th Army
19 Dec 44 at 6:45 PM
Hi, darlin’!
This will be one of the “quickiest”
letters I have written to you in a long
time. Paper weight factors; stamp
conservation factors; & personal lackadaisical
factor will add up to make The Reason.
Also, I’m kinda dumb tonite on
writing information; PLUS your letter
that arrived today not requiring
much answering as to questions: –
Ho! ho! hum! guess when the
letter that arrived today was written?!
NOVEMBER FIFTEENTH! I almost
giggled. I had to put on my thinkin’-
cap aplenty to keep dates-events-etc
straight. So many recent & up to date
letters have beaten this one that it
seemed like “ancient-history-reading”.
Anyhooo, I love to read any letter
from you––& hope that someday
all of these “ancient” missing letters
will finally arrive.
In this letter [of Nov 15th][1] [all about reading to Thump[2];
Mrs Nelsen’s furniture phone call; “acknowledging” Aldens;
or damnation squid sermon; etc; etc][3] there is
[2]
only one real question you ask me to
try to answer. That APO[4] postmark that
you drew out is a Southern France
postmark, & though it seems years ago
since I wrote said letter, I am sure
it was the first letter I wrote you.
Let me ad lib that I’m glad to
see [by comparison][5] that in recent weeks
you write on only one side of the
sheet. My reason being that I like to cut out [REPITITION 4X, 5X or 6X][6] those precious
parts of your letters, & if 2 such parts
happened to be only half-back-to-back,
I’d mess up one by cutting out the
other. Censorship of incoming mail
(though possible) is so remote & rare that
we may just as well forget about it.
Say! you never yet have “acknowledged”
hearing about Nancy McGee’s wedding
telling all about Bishop Alden Mire, etc
etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. Lost? [All I
ask is that when you do receive outright silliness
you say so, so I wont keep writing for months in
a silly manner.][7] I’m really kinda smugly
pleased about this silliness stuff—huh?
Golly, darlin’, I hope that airmail
stationary arrives soon. If you can
afford-it/find-it, better send several
gobs often as much package pilaging is
[3]
reputed to be so extensive in the
base postal areas of where packages are
handled.
[Again—3X or 4thX][8] My biggest hope in
recent days ‘n days is that my “Don’t
Open Till Xmas” letter is sitting on
the 710-4th St. Xmas-tree before Dec. 25th.
Golly! Gosh! G’ee!
As you know Evac. Hospitals move
real often. our main “fear” as of today
& the next 6 days is that we will
be right in the middle of that mess
called M-O-V-I-N-G right during
Xmas & thus our Xmas will be
spoiled. Moving anyplace is always a miserable
mess——an Evac moving is no exception—
sooo, howz about hoping for us?! Even though
we don’t move far as to distance, the
mess is always equally great. Right
this minute we are very snuggled-in/
tucked-in, & we surin’ Hell hate to
get unsnuggled/untucked until
Dec 26th.
Golly! I wrote more than I thought
I could c̅[9] my lackadaisicalness.
Anyhooo, I surin’ Hell love ya mostest-
greatests-bestest-acmest—c̅—
All my love,
Dave
[1] Bracketed text inserted into original with a caret.
[2] Nickname for their infant son, Terry.
[3] Bracketed text is part of original.
[4] Army Post Office.
[5] Bracketed text is part of original.
[6] Bracketed text is part of original.
[7] Bracketed text is part of original.
[8] Bracketed text is part of original.
[9] Medical abbreviation meaning “with.”