May 8, 1943
Dear Sisters
I will write to all of you. I have not done so much writing to you but I think of you all the time. I write home every week and to Zelda sometimes, two a week but all ways once then I write to Mary Charlotte Donna. I have wrote to Bill Robins 3 times and I write to the teacher that teaches at home once in a while, also to others at different parts of the country.
At Xmas time I got a letter. I don’t know what it is all about. The fellow that comes out with Dick if you remember I wrote him then he wrote me a letter. The first letter for about 8 years. It has been almost 10 years since they were out in 1934. It almost don’t seem possible.
Well as far as I do there is not so much to write about. I have been in this same camp too long, 3 months or more. I am getting darn sick of it but in some way I am lucky but it sure seems a waste of time when I could be working at home but we have to be here to defend the coast in case of trouble.
But some of the army routine is hard to figure out. I haven’t done a good day’s work since I left home but we do a lot of duty here like wood cutting and K.P. but not very much to brag about.
I keep figuring it out one way or I would be left out for some work but it don’t look like it for a while until they get how the land army works out.