Sept. 16, 1943
At home – per usual.
Dearest Mother and Dad,
I hope you will pardon me for not writing the last four days but we have been rather busy as I have said before. I hope you can guess what it is all about and if you read the papers I am sure you can. We have just completed our club and will have the big opening in a few nights. As per usual, we get it finished in perfect order and then we will have to leave it. I wish you could see it. I will try to send you some pictures in the near future. It takes quite a long while to get them developed because I have to send them to Sydney to get them done.
I am enclosing a few shots I have taken. They are not very good but may serve the purpose. I have some more of me being developed now. I told Lytle that I would get you to have some prints made of these and for you to send them to his wife. Please be sure and do this as I promised him you would. I had some more good shots of my ship but the censor wouldn’t let me send them. You would have liked them a lot.
I got a letter from Thelma and Kat this past week and I really
appreciated them writing to me. I
surely wish I could see them. I
hope to write them tomorrow. Is Jim
going over seas? I hope he
doesn’t try to because believe me it is plenty rough.
In the States one doesn’t have a lot of things to worry about and over
seas you do have them.
Just had my ship worked over and it should be in apple-pie order. I’ll try to send another picture of it as soon as I can if the censor will let it by. I have com to the conclusion that I brought too much stuff over with me. Especially my woolens. I have my dress clothes stored in Brisbane but my regular woolens are molding very badly.
Mom, the longer I star over here the less I know to write about. In the future, try to ask me things that I can answer and maybe it will help the contents of the letter. We are getting along fine and I am sure we will continue to do so. Please try not to worry too much and remember I am as careful as I can afford to be. The Lord has been on my side so far and I am sure he will continue to be.
Please write soon and tell me all the local news. Why don’t you try sending me a paper and see if I get it? Please watch my APO number and write soon.
All my love,
Son