Monday Nite

Dearest Donna:

No letter today, in fact none from nobody.  Maybe tomorrow will constitute a reward for me.  I wish there were two deliveries a day so that I could have twice the chance to hear from you, but then I would also have twice the amount of disappointment.  So maybe it is just as well this way.

Am in charge of quarters in the office tonight.  That is an easy job that requires no work at all except to sleep in a cot instead of a bed.  Don’t get to go to bed at nine if you want to though, but then I have never gone to bed that early since we came up here yet.  As far as that goes, I haven’t had to get up at six but once either.  That was for a surprise physical inspection they gave us. 

Gosh but it was a pretty moon, at night around here last night and on the bus from Elko to here, almost as bright as day.  There were a few scattered clouds here and there to set off the picture in a frame of silver or something.  Anyway it was really very beautiful and romantic.

Heard tonight that we are going to go direct to Pueblo from here instead of Souix City, and our stay there is supposed to be until December 1942 so far as things show now.  By then they may give us a couple more years there, if that is how she is going to be it would work in very nice with our plans if you consent to them.  I hope it turns out that way.  Now, it really means so much to me, and I hope you too.

Sure haven’t earned my money today, but that isn’t my fault.  I’ve done all I was supposed to, but I haven’t felt like doing anymore.  Didn’t get in until 4: AM so therefore lost a little sleep.

You mentioned in one of your letters that Orena got married, did you ever find out if that was here that I thought I seen at the 18^th Ward?  I am pretty sure that it was here but I could have been mistaken.

You’ve heard how people have looked almost all over the world for something only to find it in your own back yard.  That is quite similar to my, rather our case.  I looked in Salt Lake, Spokane, and Tucson, while I have been in the Army for someone, but there wasn’t anything with looking at twice.  Sure I met some nice people and girls, but there still wasn’t anything that I could say I would want.  Then I get a furlough, come home, and on the day before I am to go back, I find something I’m not sure of it, but I am going to try just the same.  It was something that I wanted, had been searching for, for over a year in three different states, and yet it was home, or practically in my own back yard.  Now that I have found you I don’t want to lose you.  You answer all the requirements of my dreams of what I wanted and then have more to offer too.  In other words Donna, I’ve looked for you, I’ve found you, and I hope I can keep you.

I wish I were stationed in Salt Lake again like it was when I first enlisted.  At that time we could go where we wanted when we wanted.  In fact I used to come to Delta almost every weekend.  I never ate a  Sunday dinner nor stayed a Saturday night while we were in Salt Lake.  That was paradise and we didn’t know it.  I hope you will help me make Pueblo another paradise for me.  I’d like to try to make it a paradise for you too.

I don’t see why the Army don’t put lines in both sides of their paper.

Well Donna I have run out of things to write about.  I’m still on the top in regards to my quitting smoking.  I have got down to where I only smoke on after every meal, and sometimes not even then.  So keep your good faith in me.  I’ll make it someday, but if I can keep it cut down to that I feel that I am doing wonderful, but realize that I am not fully accomplishing my goal.

Only 4 Cokes so far, all day. When I can say that I haven’t had a smoke nor a Coke for a week, then the battle will be won.

So with this I’ll say a very pleasant goodnight and

Lots a  Love

Wayne