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309 Wednesday 22 Aug 9:30 pm Hi, Sweetie, No letters today - but I still feel a glow of warmth from the four I received yesterday. Tel has sent in his letter requesting return to the office in Hawaii; the Captain added a favorable endorsement to it, and requested a relief by name - a non-language M.G. officer whom he may or may not intend to install as Education Officer. I think that I will be named to succeed Tel for the remainder of the time that I'm here, which as I've said might be no more than another four months. But I won't know till the guy comes, and there's no use fretting about it one way or the other. Tel should leave here in anywhere from a month to 6 weeks. If V-J day comes next Thursday the 30th, as the radio seems to think, the war involving Europe and later the United States will have lasted almost exactly 6 years from the invasion of Poland on Sept. 1 ’39. And now it's over. Did I tell you that it was good to hear your account of celebrating and an air of festivity [pg 2] even in little, removed Carmel? I'm glad you were a part of it. Here its hard to believe in feeling that anything much has happened, and I know that for most men it hasn't really sunk in yet, despite the ten enlisted men who are leaving and other evidence of fact. It will be a long time before it really means something to me, I suspect - that is, until I got home to you and Wendy, and may Godspeed that day! I love you so much, my precious darlings, and in such an infinity of ways; this life here is a useful one, yet largely devoid of satisfaction just because you are not with me to share it. Thursday 7:15 am Somebody at breakfast was saying we’re not going to like it back in the States because of all the things we can't get. Pooey! The morning newscast has outlined MacArthur's orders to the Japanese concerning what movies must be accomplished by when: planes ordered out of the air, mines removed from [pg 3] adjacent waters, quarters made available for our troops at Yokosuka, etc. He has requested some 100-old interpreters (Japanese) and of course I wondered what American language personnel would be used in addition. Presumably Army - just the B.I.J.s - though Nimitz, if he does represent the U.S. at the signing with MacArthur representing the Big Four) would probably have 2 or 3 Navy officers from Boulder. I should like greatly to sit in on the ceremonies though not to have any interpreting responsibilities at it. Time to be moving on. I'm hoping for a letter from you this morning - I love you, darling Warren
