May 25, 1945
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Dachau Concentration Camp
Germany 25 May 45-7:30PM
[As yet
I havent
outside wrapping
paper for the 7 pkgs
I tied up last night.
Tomorrow (or Sun) Ill
start them off
one at a
time, each
day.][1]
Dearest,
I wanna see “Jack London” movie
tonight even though I know nothing
of the movie’s handling of it. So right
off I’ll jump into your 3 swell letters:-
Your May 11th’s:- has 3 well,
scrumptious outdoor-in-buggy-snaps-
W H A D D A S M I L E !
Im sorry that “magic” of writing-
before-mail-delivery-time failed you.
It has me, too, a number of times but
at least 60% of the times its successful.
Maybe I subconsciously do it only when averages are good for it.
Jus’ gimme the chance to
help you out c̅[2] a “fussy-baby”—
after all, a doctor (& hospital orderly) are
very well broken in on the wake up→
sleep → wake up biznezz!
Your May 13th’s:- Say! even from
a picture little ol’ Thump[3] even shows
obviously/pictorially how he works after
things. PRIVATE [Say Terry!, ya gotta “learn” to play besides—
or mebee make some wonderful girl dissappointed someday][4].
[2]
So many times Ive forgotten to speak
of something IMPORTANT—how I miss
those things you write on the back of snaps
when they arent there. I realize it
would be incongruous to write on
certain ones, but geeeee! how “see-full”
& enhanced those notations make a snap.
Infact, darlin’, your fineness, genuineness,
& wonderfulness sorta takes “expression”
in those notations. Don’t ever stop, dearest.
Anyhooo, the 2 snaps half-out-the-T.B.
came in this particular letter [P.S. Also—
I never told you just how swell I think that
snappy, cocky, “sharp” [Army][5] & nice duck
is on the back of the T.B.. Yousah! I shore
do “go” for that duck c̅ high approval][6].
Anyhooo, your Mammy’s Day letter
starting out to Pappy, dear—was
just so “tops” ‘n nice ‘n swell. Ummm!
Gosh! didnt you get an EFM[7] re: “the best Mother
in the world”—its the best I could do & it
should have landed right on Mothers Day, I believe.
What are Terry’s features that
are you. This is a dumb sodden way
of asking about your sentence:- “…He has
a couple of features like mine…,” but I’m
[3]
not real sure from snaps just what is
what—you tell me, darlin’.
Your May 14th’s:- Juss cuz I
usually pass over the stamps you enclose
(in a quick-way) darlin’, don’t think
for a moment that I don’t appreciate
them; infact you’re very faithful &
verrrrry nice to send them. (Here lately, they
even took 3¢ imbeded-stamp-Govt-envelopes &
surcharged them up to 6¢ airmails). Soooo,
you see they aren’t the “freest” thing
in the world over here—that is, 6¢ stamps.
Im so tickled that the
divorce of E. Belkott & Dr Sprengeringen
is thouroughly understood. I still
get weak when I think of the terrible
difficulty [in][8] “handling” oriental names.
Let me say this & you please be
sure to note it in a letter, dear:—
“The family living at 710-4th St is
comprised of Emily Belkok, Miriam
Bentleyin, & John Benjaminawa”
Phewieeee!—how clumbsy but you
get the fact of Ok|in|awa—also
you “get” just how damn hard it is
to “handle” oriental names s̅[9] being obvious.
[4]
By Vet. Admin. Service, dear, I &
60,000 doctors mean that unless some
of the “stink” qui[et]s down in your
fair United States about Vet. neglect
by incompitent doctors [Readers Dig., NY’s “PM,” etc][10]—they
will just force (while still in uniform)
the good doctors now overseas
right smack into Vet. Hosps—
sorta make a screwball coercion
ammendment to the “Duration-Plus-
Six-Months”—AND dont
every [sic] think they can’t do it! [and
“they” means any Comma[n]ding {Officers Person[11]—much as our
single officer-quota-chance in the 7th Army for
2 ½ months (∴ 10X via once a week) of his officers chance to
go to Paris. Oh, Em, that rotten “S-P-A-R-T-A-N”!][12]
Anyhooo, rather than spout the TRUTH
for hours, lets me close c̅ a very pleasant
thought—yet hard to express. Whenever
I see ol’ Thump in a snapshot just ah’
workin’-away {fixin’ or investigatin’}[13] sumthin’
I just purrrr all over at his intelligent,
cute, lovely facial expressions [His fixin’-expressions are so diff. from others.][14]—they
are so nice—‘n you must {know & see}[15]
better than I do. And, too, I purrrr
all over when I think of–All Our Three Loves,
Dave
[1] Bracketed text written in upper left-hand corner in original.
[2] Medical abbreviation meaning “with.”
[3] Nickname for their infant son, Terry.
[4] Bracketed text is part of original.
[5] Bracketed text is part of original.
[6] Bracketed text is part of original.
[7] Expeditionary Force Messages, with numbers corresponding to messages for quick correspondence.
[8] Bracketed text inserted into original with a caret.
[9] Medical abbreviation meaning “without.”
[10] Bracketed text inserted into original with a caret.
[11] In original, “Officers” is written above “Person.”
[12] Bracketed text is part of original.
[13] In original, “fixin’” is written above “or,” which is written above “investigatin’.”
[14] Bracketed text inserted into original with a caret.
[15] In original, “know” is written above “&,” which is written above “see.”