May 4, 1945 Friday Evening My Dearest Darling, How is my darling tonight? Fine I hope as well as sweet and beautiful. Did I ever tell you that you were beautiful honey? In case you didn’t know it, you are. You meet every requirement of my ideal beauty, and from the compliments I get on your picture, you are everybody else’s’ idea of a beautiful girl. I hope you have gotten your money order by now, I mailed it May 2, so if you don’t receive it, write and tell me because I still have the stub for it. I am fixing you a box of candy and gum, but as I have to buy them three at a time I won’t get it mailed until after you get to Zaleski. I will just address one more letter to Clarksburg, then the one I write Sunday night I will address to Zaleski. I know it will be lonesome over there for you, but I think you and Mary will get along fine. No, darling I never did write a letter in dont titles, but will try it sometime. I bet it will be lots of fun as far as the French I put at the end of my letter I don’t know any French, but the fellow next to me served in france so can both speak and write it. I am glad you heard from Rich, but was vey sorry to hear that he is back at the front. It sure is hell to be walking along in a strange land with a rifle in your hand. The night is beautiful, but the silence is sinister. Then suddenly the earth rocks under your feet, the sky is filled with fire, and the roar of explosives almost cracks your eardrums, your stomach tightens up and all at once you want to run, but realize there is no where to run, so you fall flat on the ground and release the safety on the rifle. The your nerves quiet down and you are no longer scared, so you start firing and crawling through the mud toward the fray. The fight is on. That sounds a lot of melodrama, but it is a picture I will carry stamped on my mind forever. I know Rich is going through, the same hardships, panic and mental torture that I left on the other side of the ocean. I have a terrible feeling of helplessness when I think of those boys going through hell over there and then look at myself back here where it is safe. I, too, think a lifetime is too short for the life you and I are going to live. I can’t but think of you and I going down the pathway of life with stars in our eyes and love in our hearts. I will never forget that moment when the preacher said I now pronounce you man and wife” and you melted into my arms for our first kiss in wedlock. I love you darling. Well sweet, I mist close for now, will write you again tomorrow, I love you and think of you every minute. Goodnite sweet I love you with all my heart. Your love husband, Johnny P.S I love you.
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