Letters: June 6, 1951

        One of the pilots went home on rotation today and we celebrated him off in royal fashion. As it rained here in sunny Korea--North Korea, that is (no more you-alls) we didn’t have to fly so the whole day was spent in making (not a girl in Korea named Mary) the base for a wonderful hangover. This pilot, who left for the States, left about six this morning but that didn’t deter us from continuing the celebration--all day. Now we find out that this pilot (who leaves) only goes about fifteen miles away to a replacement depot for two or three days processing and will come back tomorrow to help us finish the party. I don’t know whether I can stand it but it’s a hell of a lot of fun trying not too hard--to stand it, I mean. Probably the dirty ol’ weather will clean up and be a rotten nice day. Such is war.
        I guess you’re right in the midst of finals so I won’t be expecting many letters for awhile. I hope you do real good--come to think of it I hope you get this letter. Maybe you have finished your finals by now and are on the way to Utopia. Incidentally, do you plan to finish your school work at SF State, or elsewhere? Just curious.
        The bottle is being passed around again and I think I see a small game of lose-my-loot starting. I have sixty bucks that ain’t working, as the only thing sold in Korea needs penicillin shots afterward, and I have an aversion to needles in the region of the derriere.
        Write as often as you can, preferably between hangovers and Henry IV. Your letters then have a quality that is hard to surpass--meaning you feel, in your letters, dashing and nostalgic--those two words being applicable at the moment the way I feel--at the moment I guess “dashing” isn’t the word but how would you explain Prince Hal--or am I way off on Shakespeare?
        Bye for now, goodlooking. Write soon.
        P.S I’m going to be on television (KTTV) sometime around the middle of June. It will be a newsreel of the 25th Division and Air Section. The TV cameraman happened to be an old friend so I’m starred (more or less)(mostly less). Anyway I am on it and if you see or hear of it let me know. I’m sorry I won’t be able to make the premiere but next time maybe.