October 18, 1944

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18 Oct 44 (Wed)

Dearest,

Day before yesterday I started

out our “talk” by telling you the

letter would be only a “quickie” because

of going to NYC—today is the

same. I don’t really feel very enthusiastic

about going to NYC cause there will be

a horrible gap s̅[1] you along —

but most every day the officers clear out of

here for NYC & a guy sorta goes along

in “defense.” Yesterday, one of the reasons

I went on that 8 mile march (that I

wrote you about) was because things were

so dead c̅[2] most all officers gone. Soooo,

today I’ll tag along & I believe I can

do it for less than ^$3. Golly! some officers

spender ^$5.50 to ^$7.00 for dinner alone. — boy! a guy

could really spend dough in N.Y.C.

However, a bus ticket from this

“nameless-camp” to NYC costs only ^$1

round trip & the subways will cost me

only 10¢ to 20¢ & the Statue of Liberty

boat will be only 35¢. After the Statue

[I] will be able to walk to Trinity Church

& a lot of other interesting places.

Ill try again, of course, to call

Aunt Katherine but I fear that she is

[2]

down in New London. I’ll also call

the “middle-man” (I wrote about) once more

in hopes of contacting Clyde or Dobie.

“Hellzapoppin” last night didn’t

have Olsen-Johnson in it but the

New York taker-overers were tops. Infact

that whole show was a tops scream!

I (s̅ a ticket) sorta sneaked my way into

the theater in the center of an Air Corps

“fight” c̅ the theater management.

Boy! are those paratroopers & air corpers

wild buzzard! — all over the

world they are the wildest Hell-rasin’est

buzzards that live!

This writing is pretty jerky —--

I’m out back of the barracks on a

woodpile box c̅ the sun hitting me

& thus writing stability is minimal.

However, they are sweeping the barracks

& I’ll bet 10,000,000,000 cold-bronchitis-

flu germs per every breath are existant.

Someday I’ll give you details of these

infecting-structures call[ed] army-barracks.

Guess another reason I’m going to

unnecessarily spend 3 bucks & go to

NYC is that if a letter comes from you

today it will come — I wont

[3]

have to anxiously/“itchingling” hang

around all day just waiting, waiting,

waiting for one. Again, I know it

is not your fault, dearest. Guess, the

last reason I am going to NYC again

today is that I wont go again. [“Silly.”][3]

I realize that I keep “apologizing”

& rationalizing why I spend your &

Thump’s[4] money. It really does seem

that I do spend your & his money

but a guy is just sorta dirven to it —

anyhooooo, its not the ^$13, ^$23, or ^$33 that

most of the guys spend when they go.

I love you so dearest — I

miss you so — for me too it gets

“worser ‘n worser” every day.

All my love to you both,

Dave

P.S. Oh yes, I have finally rememberd to enclose

the parcel post-insurance receipt just

incase you needed to fight a claim.

That manila envelope is worth ^$1,000,000.53.

[1] Medical abbreviation meaning “without.”

[2] Medical abbreviation meaning “with.”

[3] Bracketed text is part of original. In original, there is an arrow pointing from “silly” to the “again.”

[4] Nickname for their infant son, Terry.