Letter from Warren Johnston to Bobby [Letter 187]

Letter from Warren Johnston to Bobby [Letter 187]

#139 Navy #3247 (Military Govt) FPO SF Saturday 7 am My dearest darling, No mail from you in so long! And yesterday, when a batch of airmail came for everyone I thought sure there’d be a letter from you; just one from Aunt Bev and another from Grandfather, which I'm mailing you in a separate envelope. You will be glad to know that I received more pay the other day than I’d expected and, after paying my $40 option on the right to buy liquor for $1.50 or less a fifth (when it gets here, some time in the next 10 weeks), am sending Father a money order for $25 - Next month it should be $50 - Yesterday I put in an application for formal transfer to the Education Dept. and it looks as though it may go through. Things are really humming up at the school now; we've just received 5 nisei from Hawaii who will spend half a day teaching English, the other half organizing athletics, natural science field trips, the forthcoming handicraft classes, etc. That's in addition to Wong, who works there full time, and Shin (the Korean) who works all over camp as interpreter (both “ and Japanese) but also handles the censorship of all school lessons written in Korean. Yesterday Tel was out scrounging athletic equipment and picked up a terrific amount of it from various CB outfits - baseballs, basketballs, even 4 or 5 water polo balls and some handballs! Think I'll write M and F a note now and send that money - haven't written them in about 3 weeks. I love you Warren

1945-02-17

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