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267 Navy #3247 (Mil. Govt) FPO San Francisco Friday July 6 6:30 pm My dearest darling - Just a little interim before I go to the MG (military personnel) theater to pick up the film for tonight - because they had a good picture scheduled there (‘Thunderhead,’ the story of a horse) we did not request a last-run film for the school theater but will shuttle this one instead, as each successive reel is furnished: Now that we have our own projector and don't have to borrow one and the projectionist to go with it from a distant CB outfit, we also have to do our own projecting. I've taken over responsibility for the machine and have operated it a couple of times, but mostly it is run by one of the policeman who ran a movie theater in Tinian town before the war. That way I have to be at every movie instead of [?nating] the responsibility with Tel, but [a?] not up as late. More scuttle in your letter today - I can easily believe that all the Navy men in Casa are on tenterhooks. I won't blame you a bit for being mad if the Boulder men go to [pg 2] Washington, darling, and yet - anxious as I am to get home - I wouldn't have had us miss this experience as it has been up to now and will continue till I leave here. I needed just some such experience as this, after two or three years of irregular employment, to give me self-confidence and a broader outlook in terms of immediate practical things. Had I remained with my group, I think I would have had a very strong sense of futility (even more than many of those men do have) at all that training and then all that wasteful waiting on top of it. As it is, I feel useful without having to argue or press the point, feel also that if I were released from the Navy at this moment I would have accomplished enough of permanent value out here to justify that training. Saturday 7:25 am “Thunderhead” was a good movie for the kids, though not as perfect as “National Velvet”; the Technicolor was magnificent, as indeed all the Technicolor seems to be these days. I can't help feeling, though, that the kids would like nothing [pg 3] so well as a rip-roaring, rough-and-tumble Western with lots of rough riding, shooting, and fist fighting. I wish we could get such pictures for them but there aren't any on the island. The news that Steve Nickelsburg is anchored near here was good to get, though I won't expect him till I see him - I recall that when I first came out here, Hy Kublin also was anchored near here for a couple of months and we never met. On the other hand, others have surprised me by coming thru Tinian. It's late this morning - guess I was tired after last night, because I overslept - and part time to go to work. I love you, darling Warren The tobacco you sent is excellent
