3/17/43
Dear folks & all:
Yesterday I received your package with the holster, the wash cloths, chewing gum, peanuts, mints, and chewing tobacco and the swell birthday card. They were all swell and the pistol holster is just what I needed. It fits to a tee.
Wow! would I ever like to see you have some of this heat. No fooling it is about to get all of us down.
Oh: yes – tell the children & Aunts that “See Here Private Hargrove” is one of the funniest books I have ever read and also one of the truest to military life.
The ants are surely bad again this evening. What a pleasure it will be to get back to the mainland some day.
Hope that you get the other pictures and that you like them. I thought they were pretty good.
Surely do hope and pray that Robert is well on the road to recovery. I know that he will get along ok.
You should see my pups (I mean Radio’s) they surely are getting to be plenty good looking. Should have some pictures of them in another month or so.
Thanks for the stamps they are still hard to get down here. Again, I want to thank you for the package. Incidentally the package proposition hasn’t effected the Marines it is only for the Army. Just tell the postmaster to read it over. They won’t bother the Marines because they are doing all the fighting.
Must close for this time and go out and inspect our bivouac. Trust this finds all of you feeling fine.
All my love,
Leo
1st Lt. L.J. McLoskey
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