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331 Sunday 23 Sept. 8 pm My dearest darling, Today was no day off (though the [?] all over camp is definitely in that direction) but rather a full working today. I am tired not so much because of that as on account of yesterday's exertion crawling in and out of caves. This afternoon a choir of almost forty army personnel including ten nurses, under the direction of a Chaplain Damp who has visited the school several times came up to the school theater to sing church choral music; there were also solos, an accordionist and two little organs. The visitors, in trucks, an ambulance, and keeps, formed quite a cavalcade and were of course surrounded in no time by mobs of kids. It was a good program and made me sorry that the volume of our electric phonograph unit [pg 2] whose microphone we used for the occasion is inadequate. We have a splendid, booming P.A. system now but for general convenience and safety it is seated in the projection booth - we can use the mike there but can't stretch it to the stage. Before movies and before occasions such as this afternoon's we play Japanese popular song records furnished by the O.W.I. Yesterday we received 2 recordings (made at Iwo Jima) of the Emperor's [Resc?pt], and I plan to play it for those of the Japanese camp who want to come in the auditorium Tuesday night. The recording is so poor and full of static that we shall have to play it twice - even then not all of it will be understood - but well worth putting on anyhow. Also have a late newsreel [pg 3] in Japanese of the arrival of Japanese envoys in Manila which will be shown before the recording is played. The news we get should be especially interesting to show from now on. Two more good letters from you today. I'm very behind in answering except in general, - incidentally, sweetie, I note how you feel about the idea of staying in the Navy a few months to work in Washington and will do my best to see whether I can find out everything about it - have one lead. The only trouble with the idea of getting into the civil service after that is that every G.I. and a lot of officers will be crowding it and may make for an even more widespread standard of mediocrity than is likely to prevail in governmental work at other periods, and I don't like to become associated with that - too demoralizing. But special cases are different and on that too I'll see what I can find out. My mind's not made up yet - except that I know what I want for us! I love you Warren
