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XII Thurs Oct 5 7:30 pm My darling - The rest of the men have gone to a movie and I have the writing table to myself ([?] on). (smell them!) We are spending three days away from our usual location one of the many little training ventures that the Navy abounds in. It's just like an outing; I sleep in a tent, screened in with the side flaps rolled up, and can watch the moonlit sky at night or the sunrise in the morning. We are near a beach (and are not required to wear bathing suits) - have just now come back from a half hour's walk with five or six other men, in the course of which I picked up the enclosed little piece of coral. Last night I missed writing you for the first time because I thought I’d have a chance to in the morning (you can see how far I got!) Probably no mail will go out while we’re here (each group may use only its own censors, and ours are back at the office) but I’d like you to have a letter everyday even if you get them in bunches sometimes. The men I am with here in Hawaii are a very congenial group, especially on such an outing as this, and I enjoy being with them. When I am more intimately associated with a smaller number of them, as I doubtless shall be later on, I'll write you [pg 2] about them in more detail. The room I'm writing in now is the lounge of an officers’ barracks building (the tents are overflown, and are to be preferred in nice weather, which it almost always is here) and is pleasantly furnished along modern lines with rustic finish - some sort of solid cane half sections mounted on ordinary wood in the manner of a stockade fence and varnished or shellacked. There are three wide sofas with bases of that sort (and end tables to match) and with covering materials of brown ships enclosed in red squares - has a large radio phonograph (floor) and a bar, behind which is a cupboard for glasses and cups and a large electric refrigerator stocked with beer and cokes. There are woven mats on the floor and venetian blinds of natural wood color covering three walls. Six tube chairs and a good solid [hinge?] table with tube legs and a washable plastic surface, and a large magazine table in the corner about complete the setup. Well, my darlings, at least I've bought you something to start eh Christmas box - found one little thing I was looking for in the Ship's Service Store here this afternoon. Incidentally, I'll mark any such package “Do Not Open Til Christmas” so that you may assume that a package is to be opened on arrival if it's not so marked. And now to bed real early - had a pretty good sleep last night and tonight's is going to be just perfect. I'm very sleepy - for some curious reason they serve coffee here only for breakfast. Get in every office during the day they keep a [?] big urn going for anyone to have [?] be [?] I love you very much Warren
