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218 Navy #3247 (Mil. Govt) FPO San Francisco Thurs 10 May 1945 8:10 am Hello, sweetie- Got caught short this time! Night before last after a 2 hour+ English class I postponed till morning and then had to go to school early to make sure the projection booth was started off right. Last night I went out with Charlie and Joe Seannell to the first showing of the review show (it went over big) and dropped in at a party of some Marine unit which has a honey of an Officers’ Club - spacious, bamboo lined - when Charlie knows several men (Came out on the ship with them) for a couple of drinks. I quite forgot that I had censorship watch until time for it to begin, at 7. Fortunately there was a movie here last night and there were half as many letters as usual - we’re on every Thursday there is usually no movie Wed. and everybody writes. The party was in celebration of the units 2nd anniversary overseas, in consequence of which several officers had their stateside orders and others were on [?] then. The C.O. of the outfit, before we arrived, had presented mock medals and citations to several. One was to a quiet, tall blonde guy of about 27 for “a successful withdrawal after a series of rear-guard actions…” while he was stationed in Hawaii. He confided with [unostentious?] frankness that the citation referred to 17 days and nights of one continuous affair. Your two letters of Friday and Saturday (27-8) finally arrived [pg 2] yesterday afternoon and it's not exaggerating much to say that I was overjoyed to get them. I'll answer in detail - not tonight, because Tel and I are having a beer party for all our enlisted men at the office, not tomorrow when I have a class, but surely not later than Saturday night. I loved those letters, darling. Also enjoyed the pictures and the clipping on the Okinawans wedding. Have an amusing story to tell you in that connection of which I'll give you the details later-briefly, it's this: The clipping came in yesterday's eleven a.m. mail. The morning had been spent in a 2 hr bull session at the office amongst Tel, Arthur, Riley Ewing, I and Roy Cummings (author of that article in the Star-Bulletin, back here just to visit for a few after a month in Okinawa). Among other things he told the story of the wedding, which he had attended - and told it a lot more dramatically and amusingly than the newspapers ever could, apart from censorship restrictions. Once again you've hit the nail right on the head - Roy was glad to see the clipping himself. Till later, darling Warren
