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323 Wednesday 12 Sept. 10:45 am (Between Payline and lunch) Hi, Sweetie, Ladabouche (the tall Ensign in that payline-with-jeep picture I sent you sometime ago) informs me that he has just heard from Washington that my pay account is to be docked about $31 - for excess baggage on that shipment of our things many months back! Well, I'll squeeze it out of the Navy some other way - my temporary orders to Saipan and Guam, for instance, are worth $3 a day, but the only place I can collect it is in Washington. It was very, very good to see Charlie and I wish he were still around. He is an eminently good, sane, earthy and agreeable person, with many small vanities but no big ones and no malice. Apparently he and Evan had a rough time of it at Pearl - in the sense of being assigned to that sort of made work which the armed forces are so proficient in supplying. They worked not at JICPOA but at CincPac M.G. Staff headquarters, to which I was attached in Pearl. [pg 2 MISSING] [pg 3] Those curls in back - you didn't fix ‘em? I hope her hair is curly, though the odds are probably against it. Gee, Sweetie, she looks like such an intelligent child, and that delights me more than anything. #384 - Don't be discouraged by recent estimates as to when I'll get home - it could be in four months. And at any rate perhaps it won't hurt now that there is a limit, the war being over, to imagine a little to be optimistic. Yes, as you know by now I was listening, and thinking of you meanwhile (the Missouri and Truman broadcasts) #385 - I'm jealous of other men in uniform who take a shine to Wendy Recipes…gosh if you only knew how eager I am to eat some home-cooked food-sure, we get enough in vitamins, but - Awful tired, Sweetie - off to bed to dream about you I love you Warren
