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#165 Navy #3247 (Mil. Govt) FPO San Francisco Wed. 14 March 8:30 pm My dearest darling, It feels good, and a little cozy, to get back to my tent tonight and to read some mail from you. I've spent a most interesting two days and a night away from camp; it was like a vacation and seemed much longer. I wish I could describe it all to you, but some day I will be able to. Have seen at least a dozen men I know at either Boulder, Columbia or Pearl. I don't think any of their names are familiar to you, but for the benefit of anyone you see who might be interested I'll recount some of them: Normal Miller, Monahan, Jish (for jishin, the Japanese word for earthquake: he was born in Japan the year of the big one) Martin, La Bianca, Bjorklind, Sheehan - all Boulder, the last two being in other than MG; John Horan, Alan Neumann (Columbia 8th Section); a number of others. I talked for more than half an hour to a man I knew at Pearl who was on his way back from Iwo, having been through the whole [pg 2] thing; he described successive operations in some detail, and I learned a lot of incidental information that I can’t repeat. Also met a guy named Angell (no relation to the Yale family - it appeared that everyone asks him the same question) who was on his way back to Hawaii from [Angur?] where he had been Fran's tentmate; he said that Fran did a really swell job there and that no entire population turned out to see him off - with a good deal of weeping - when he left. Last night I was up fairly late talking, and it's been a strenuous couple of days besides. So till tomorrow, Dearly Beloved I love you Warren P.S. The little card enclosed in good for canned food and cigarets at the trade store and is given at paying time to all those who work a minimum number of days each month (31, 30 or 28 minus 5). The clipping is from a Hawaiian paper. The costumes worn by Koreans on festive occasions here resembles those and would doubtless do so more if materials were available. W.
