Letters Missed: May 29, 1951

        Just received another letter from you though this one was dated April 25. IN it you said you felt like a monster for not writing but here I’ve been getting mail from you regularly so I don’t think you’re a monster. At the end of the letter you said you didn’t like to be called Barbara. Well Baby, I abhor nicknames and whereinhell did you even get the name of Tommy? Tis an offshoot of Thomas and I don’t think you were christened Thomas so Barbara it is. So there… Maybe you’ve forgotten about it anyway--
        Other than those two remarks your letter was an enjoyable bit of interesting things you were doing--you do write a nice letter, being able to write things so that the reader (me) is able to picture what is going on with only a minimum of imagination. Although sometimes you make me stretch my imagination to such a degree it hurts. Have you ever had an imagination that hurt? Oh sob, gasp, sob!
        Tomorrow we move again. And we’ve moved twice since my last letter. We’re now about two thousand yards South of the parallel (38th) and tomorrow we move into an airstrip just over the parallel. There seems to be a lot of peace talk floating around the Division and we know for sure the Chinese have pulled back way up North. I don’t know how they (the Chinese) keep up their movements with the way the flyboys are giving them hell. And our tankers go way up North probing and looking for trouble but only a few scattered Chinese troops are found. And there are dead Chinese everywhere. It’s a silly war, the way it’s being fought.
        Okay honey, all of the letter for now. You’ve been real keep about writing and I love you lots. Hope you can see the folks before the summer starts. Bye for now.