Dearest Betty

Letter # 77
April 11, 1951
Dearest Shirl

Thanks a lot for your letter, also the clover. Got a kick about hearing about your “heels”. You will be as tall as I am with them on, won’t you? Kim received your letter. You should see how very proud it makes him when his name is called out at mail call. He has spent all day writing you and what a job. He prints so he finds out what word he wants to use looks it up in his Korean/English dictionary then prints it. I had to spell out each word of your letter to him and he made the printed letter to match your long hand. Then he read it not once but several times. He is quite a boy and you have no idea how much he helps me. Heats water to shave, bathe, and make coffee and runs a hundred errands a day for me and the others. Now he won’t let me wash clothes. He does it himself, beats them with a stick by the river. We all like him a lot.

Well, Sug, I expect you will have your driver’s license by now, won’t you?

I have been reading up on the 51 Plymouth. Seems like quite a car, We may have one some day. Who knows?

Well, I’ll close now, just heard about McArthur being relieved.

Love, Dad