12 September 1942
Dear Folks & All:
Here it is Saturday again and another week has gone bye. Where I am one hardly can remember the day and the month as they are about all the same. All it is or amounts to is sleep when you can find time, sweat, work, worry, rain, heat, rust, and be on the alert all the time.
Sorry to hear about Algie and Aunt Mabel. I do hope they both have a speedy recovery. It surely is a crime about those children of his. They are so smart and sweet and well mannered.
Mother, I mailed the package with beads in it for Elizabeth and you. As your birthday is the 29th of this month you will have to consider it as your gift until the first of the month then I will send you some money and you can buy yourself a gift. I sent the children a dollar a piece this week. I am glad you received the candle stick holders and the bridge set. Also, I am glad you liked them. Did my $25.00 allotment arrive at the Monmouth Trust & Saving this month?
Dad, your letters sound as if you are as busy as I am. When do you find time to sleep or do you do like I have been catch as catch can.
Should be some mail in again one of these days. It surely is a holiday when one gets mail. Am glad my mail gets to you as fast as it does.
I just finished reading 72 letters (censoring them) how would you like that job? It is a tough one.
It doesn’t look to me as if the war will be over this year. But, I believe it will be by the middle of 1943. At least I hope and pray so. The sooner the better so I can get back and see all of you. Golly! I surely do miss all of you.
Not much news but a line to let you know I am ok and that I think of all of you all the time and that I am proud to belong to the fighting Marines.
Love to all,
Leo
2d Lt. L.J. McLoskey
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