November 1, 1942 – “Let’s get it over with and go home to the things we love.”

Sunday Afternoon

Dear Mom + Dad,

I received some welcome news from home today, if you know what I mean. Yes my $25 arrived safely in this morning’s mail. I will go up the first thing tomorrow and cash it. I’m going to try and send it back to you when I get paid. I think I should get paid on the supplementary payroll that should come in around the middle of the month. If not I’m fairly certain I’ll get a double pay at the end of this month. I may ask for more if I don’t get the supplementary but I expect to put it all back in my fund if at all possible. Of course with the time I have now I may find a way to spend it but that is what it is for.

I was quite interested in the experience Ken Schott had. I knew him quite well when I was going to school. He certainly had quite a time of it. When you read about things like that and about people you know it really brings the war home to you. I guess I’ve been pretty lucky almost 9 months in the service and no signs of actual conflict. So I guess I’m not so bad off. It is funny though after you’ve been in awhile it doesn’t make much difference just where you are. You rather hate the inactivity of army life and want some action. It’s in the back of everybody’s mind. Let’s get it over with and go home to the things we love.

I haven’t been doing anything the last few days except read, eat, sleep, and go to the movies. At least I’m catching up on some of my back reading. It isn’t so bad, although doing nothing gets on your nerves once in awhile. My friend Kay Kyser is coming here Tuesday to put on a show for us. I imagine I’ll like that. Some time in the near future Jack Benny is going to do one of his broadcasts here and I’ll be able to see that to. This being so near to Hollywood is the break for us in the way of getting entertainers. Also in our open air movies we get all the latest pictures and most of the time we see them before they are out to the civilians.

I guess that is all for now. Thanks for the money and I’ll do my best to get it back.

Love

Bob