Letters: May 4, 1952

    Today I received two of the cutest and sweetest letters from my honey and I can’t get over them. In fact I’m in sort of a delirious stupor for two reasons--one is that you wrote a letter like I had hoped you would, and two is that I received two letters from you on the same day. I was reading the letters walking from headquarters and I bumped into a P.F.C. [Private First Class] I said “pardon me sir” and almost saluted him. I caught my hand in time and scratched my nose but the PFC stood there with his mouth open and probably thought that 1st LTs are odder than ever. So you see what your letters do to me. I managed to make it back to the ROQ without further trouble but when I got there and read your letter over again I just sat and stared at nothing with my mind about four hundred and fifty miles away in San Fran and fell in love again more deeper than ever. Now there’s something--I’m so much in love with you it hurts yet when I get a letter from you or talk to you I seem to fall deeper in love and I know there’s no end to it--nor do I even want there to be an end.
    I got in about ten last night and got a good night's sleep, which was a good thing because I had to fly the General over to Yuma and it was kind of a long trip and now I leave for Camp Cooke tomorrow and another long trip staring at me. But at the finish of this trip I get to see you and that makes it alright.
    So my darling--I’ll talk to you Thursday night and see you Friday. Be real good and careful--and--well, I guess you might as well know. I love you with all my heart, forever and ever.