Friday Noon – July 28, 1944
Dear Folks,
Well we got back from our outing last evening but we were so busy cleaning up all our equipment etc. that there was no chance to write last night. We didn’t get to send out any laundry this week and I was so short of clothes that I also had to do a pretty big washing.
I went to radio school this morning and I think we go again tomorrow morning. We are just taking a little review on what we already had. But it has begun to look sort of useless to me, because so far we have had no practical use for it.
Unless something changes somebody’s mind we are going to have another one of our thrilling hikes. My feet are sure sore from the other hike and about four hours of it tonight really should fix me up.
It seems to me that this has been our hardest week so far. This will make three nights of work and we have had only that one morning off. It’s getting so that every time you go to bed you feel worse when it comes time to get up then you did the night before. You know how an extra hard days work effects you. Times like these are sure hard on the morale and it sure makes you want to be out of this mess.
Our mail has been irregular this week but I finally got your letter you wrote last weekend. I’ve not got time to hunt it up now to see what you wanted to know but I’ll don’t tonight it I have time or over the weekend.
Well if I don’t have time to write tonight I’ll put this in an envelope and send it as it is.
Love, Donald
I haven’t been able to get any chewing gum for a while and it sure helps keep from getting so thirsty in the hot weather. How’s the supply up there
Night
Time is awfully short before we start on the hike but I just want to tell you I got a letter and the box from you tonight. Right now I am in no especial need for stationary but just getting something raised my spirits 500%. Thanks a million. The sox won’t come amiss but you don’t need to send anymore for a while. I’ll let you know if I get low again. I feel a whole lot more like hiking now in spirit even if I don’t in body.
DT