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326 Sunday 16 September noon Dearly Beloved, It must seem to you that after being optimistic about getting out of here in 3 or 4 months and guessing April as the month when I'll arrive home, I've practically conceded by various comments I've made since that it will be longer than that. Well it does look that way, but somehow- I can't quite say why, because it's only a feeling - I refuse to believe it. Even if I don't have enough points to get me out for 6 or 7 months (the point system seems to me so irrelevant except in the case of those who have enough points already that I don't even remember exactly when it would let one out) and even if I am exempt from the point system on 2 counts (M.G. and language officer) anyway, I think the situation will be considerably changed by another 6 months from now. I may not even need a relief here; if I do, remember that there will still be a pool somewhere (the pool moved from CASA to San Francisco, you know - not all the men, but almost 200 of them); and reliefs may be sent in 3 or 4 months just to use men for [pg 2] whom no other place has been found. 10:30 pm Hi, Sweetie - This has been a full day. This afternoon the Boy and Girl Scouts held a ceremony for Tel, who is leaving in a day or two, and presented him with some rather nice little things they’d made. The spirit of it was delightful; I wish you could have seen it. Two boys and two girls wore their new uniforms - how different it makes them look, especially the girls! You may see pictures of them, as Dan Volkmannn took several snapshots and I'll try to get copies. Lowe and I spent the rest of the afternoon making the rounds of the churches and getting him acquainted with that whole area (churches, scot office, handicraft apprentice shop), which is at some distance from the school (way over in the Korean camp) but which comes within our jurisdiction. Tonight at six the Nisei boys had a dinner party for Tel at the school kitchen. The food was [pg 3] delicious - fresh fish that they’d caught, and fried chicken and fresh pork (prepared Japanese fashion) which they’d scrounged from some outside unit; rice, and school-kitchen-made soy sauce and vegetable relishes. Then Cho gathered up all the 20-odd girls who work there (nearly all young April graduates of the school, many of whom have grown surprisingly on this added diet of K-rations and despotically made each of them sing a song, you would have loved it. We broke up at nine after all of us had sung songs too and I returned to write a letter to Bob Carey. Here is as specific an answer as I can give to your recent question - it's far from the only thing I have in mind, but darling, I think it's what I really want to do and will try to if we can be happy doing it. I think not only that we can, but that it will make even more of a difference to us as time goes on: for what's really important is not [pg 4] the next 3 or 4 years of my working life, but the next thirty or forty. I want to start by signifying my intention of applying for govt. aid under the GI Bill of Rights, and then get a job teaching in high school until we can afford my stopping to get an M.A. Lowe, who ought to know, says I can do it in 12 weeks if I get a few points of credit for M.G. school (that's what I wrote to Bob Carey about) and write my thesis on the school here. Where? Boulder, of course! I have Jap Lang Credit there, have satisfied the [?] requirements, and would enjoy living there awhile again and it would be fun for Wendy. If possible I should do that first, and anyhow could plan the trip East for a stopover there to make arrangements. I should love teaching in H.S. awhile, writing a thesis on the Tinian School, and going back to school as a free man. I think we could swing it financially, and I don't mean by borrowing or on $75 a week. [pg 5] That's just part one. Ultimate objective would be either public school administration work or college teaching in history or political science. I haven't time to go into detail now but the thought of either appeals to me very much. Whether or not it amounts to anything, it has for the moment given me a new sense of direction and enjoyment of my work. Darling, I know you need a long letter right now but with Tel leaving it's difficult to find time. I shall soon. Please don't think too far ahead on the basis of these slim plans, but do let me know your reaction. Remember always that whenever I make plans, or think of fun, or happiness, or achievement and satisfaction, I am thinking of you as well as of my own needs and abilities. It just isn't in me to do otherwise, darling; you’re a part of me. I love you wholly Warren
