Letter from Warren Johnston to Bobby [Letter 219]

Letter from Warren Johnston to Bobby [Letter 219]

#171 Navy #3247 (MG) FPO SF Tues 20 Mar 10 pm My dearest darling, Had at least as full a day today as yesterday and am equally tired, but there's a great deal of difference between being tired (and irritable) from an overdose of routine work and being tired (but satisfied) from having accomplished a lot of little things and planned others. Wrote up a brief report to the Colonel on the projected school farm (sweet potato) program for the next several months -spent an hour or so with the FEA man, Morimoto (my Nisei responsible for farm program and suiji operation) Lieut. Smith (Coach's relief, who taught English in a private school - Japanese students - in Sendai for a dozen years up to 1932, has been teaching Engl. in a high school near Pittsburgh [?]) and others, looking over the farm area - spent a while at the suiji, which is now serving a [?] meal to the kids who go out digging for potatoes just as a warm-up - attended to dozens of little jobs during the day, taught an English class tonight using primary readers for the first time. (Tel got ahold of about 50 copies of one) The class caught on quickly and their progress is interesting to watch. Tomorrow night I have free! Goodnight, darling I love you W.

1945-03-20

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