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340 July 20 - Friday - 6:00 P.M. My Darling: When I got your letter this afternoon, with promise of a longer letter to follow, I could have sat down and bawled. Don't know why, and of course you have no way of knowing when I need you most. It just seems as if I've been waiting and waiting for a long letter about us. Its not that I'm not interested in your surroundings and what you are doing, because of course I am. Perhaps its just that every once in a while like the past two weeks, you seem to be particularly damn far away from me, and when I get these impersonal letters they only seem [pg 2] to make the feeling more acute. Right now I feel as if I’d like to go far, far away someplace with you and Wendy - perhaps a nice fine place like Norway or Sweden, and just live away from everyone we know for a year or so. I'm so god damned sick and tired of war, and the way it distorts people and things in general. For a while I was feeling complacent, now I'm feeling rebellious again. Riley, Mary and [May Lee?] arrived about noon, stayed til about three and had lunch. I don't know what to tell you about the visit. May Lee and Wendy had a happy little time together. Mary sat quietly by watching Helen who got very plastered, Riley sat on the floor eating, and answering questions [pg 3] and I kept busy feeding them, and the children. Riley was over to Casa last week - said that Kooser and Hershey have been sent up. I think to Oakland, to a Navy hospital, because there is nothing for them to do down here - also Riley says he thinks Navy MG is to fold up soon, and he heard the same at Pearl. He's going to apply for a discharge, because it looks as if they are going to be handed out with a liberal hand, now that the men are no longer needed. I wish you could sit down and think of a couple of good sounding reasons, and then apply for a discharge. Crazy things do happen, and it might just work. You talked yourself into the Navy, and now may [pg 4] be able to talk yourself out. Do you think there is any possibility at all? If Casa should fold up next month or in September do you still think you may be home for Christmas? Or at any rate back in Hawaii finishing out your eighteen months. After the Ewings left, Wendy and I went down to the beach, leaving Helen sunbathing outside. It was perfect down there, warm, clear and good smelling. Wendy's lip looks nasty today, tho the swelling has gone down. She didn't cut her lip as I thought, the cut is just above. And sweety, this morning I discovered that Wendy has still [pg 5] another tooth - bottom molar - making nine in all six on top and three on bottom. They seem to be popping out like pop corn right about now. Came across this in Bennet Cerf's Try and Stop Me - “In Oxford, Mississippi, a young lady offered William Faulkner a capital - clear distinction between “like” and “love”: “If I like ‘em I belt ‘em. If I loves ‘em, I helps.” Do you know that in the past year your handwriting has grown larger, and mine smaller? And just what is that indicative of? Well, sweety, another day gone by, and we’re almost a the two month mark - Please make the time go by fast like. Mailed the pajamas off to [pg 6] you this afternoon. Helen is going to walk to the P.O. tonight, but I don't expect anything - except that I'm hoping for a big long special sometime this week-end please. I love you too, darling, very very much- Bobby [Suong?] says the war will end this year or early next - interesting after the recent Moscow meetings - no?
