Dearest Betty

Letter # 82
April 17, 1951
Dearest Betty

Two letters from you today, 5th & 6th. One from you said Pete wasn’t home because maybe her mother was worse. Pete didn’t feel like driving home after the funeral so I suppose she is dead dead dead. I just had to got up to Maj. Coffee and pick up a new Russian made anti tank grenade. I’ll have to take it all apart tonight & see what makes it tick so I can write a report on it & probably hold school. I get a kick out of doing things like that for when I start everyone finds some excuse to go someplace away from the tent. They won’t admit they are scared, they just dribble out and first thing I know I am alone and that is best for I can think & study best when no one is around to ask questions. Big fires around us tonight someone has set the hills on fire. Starting to get warmer here now, even see a few mosquitoes now & then. Probably be bad before long .

Well, the Stg. Maj. Said tonight not to expect to go home before August. Said a big draft of NCO’s were due out here in July. Seems so long when a set time is given but I can’t see how they can just relieve all S.NCO’s at one time like that.You asked about Tate, he is just like us---delay delay delay, so we still have him with us.

Well, Sugar, if things don’t get any rougher than it is now, I’ll survive and hope till August comes around fast.

All my love,

Bill