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328 Wednesday 19 Sept. 10:30 pm Hi, Sweetie- Your husband has really been a busy man lately. This evening in the at-last-completed auditorium I had Wong and [Nishihin?], two unlisted Nisei interpreters who were borrowed from this unit awhile ago as special interpreters for a group of scientists who had worked on the atomic bomb, and who (W. and N.) returned after 8 days in Tokyo and Yokohama because there were enough English-speaking Japanese available who had the added advantage of knowing the country, make a talk on their trip to an audience of only Japanese. It is amazing how many people there are in camp who still don't believe that the war is over. Wong came back from Tokyo feeling thoroughly angry at these people here, sheltered and fed as they are, complaining or refusing to face the facts when so many of their compatriots were rationed to 1 teacup (after dinner size) of rice and 1 of beans per day. He said that all of Yokohama except for one Chinese [pg 2] residential street, and most of Tokyo, was levelled just as flat as Tinian town. Just rubble as far as you could see. Three officers on the team of 33 (plus a hundred or more enlisted men) who are going to [Tr?k] came through here a couple of days ago and mentioned that Benson and Corrigan - also Johnny Kneubuhl - are in the group going there. The population is said to consist of 2000 Japanese civilians, no Koreans, about 200 Germans, 40 Swiss, several French [?] and I forget how many thousand (perhaps 10 or 12) native Carolinians. It should be an interesting place to see, and almost as rugged as going on a fresh operation, though of course without much danger. I wish when I wrote you the other day about getting an M.A. I could have written you all that was in my mind. I am by no means committed to going back to school, but I do think, among other things, that that direction offers (as you once suggested in part) the most possibilities of fun and freedom for us. [pg 3] We’d never be rich, but sweetie, I don't think I've got much chance of making a lot of money even if I were hellbent to do that above everything else. It takes connections and a willingness to subordinate yourself to a degree I'm not willing to. But even while I go ahead with tentative plans, I am thinking of what else I might be able to get into that might be an effective compromise for us. Please have no concern about the future - darling, I don't think we'll be able to avoid tempering our earnestness to get ahead in any given direction with a good deal of fun. Travel, reading, time to ourselves, but perhaps most of all time spent with our children - Darling, I love you very, very much - especially when you say such things as that you’d hate to have me stay in the Navy but you’d back me up if I decided to - well, two or three men here have their applications in (now's the time) and I haven't even given it a thought. That's just out. Goodnight, Sweetie Warren
