3/21/43
Dear folks & all:
Here it is Sunday evening and another week has passed by. We had a little excitement in the middle of the week. However, none since then.
Honestly! It seems to me as if the days get warmer all the time down here. Around noon it is almost unbearable.
My thoughts today go back to when we all used to go over to the grandparents on Sunday evenings. If only we all could relive those pleasant evenings.
Mother, what did you think of the shell clasps? Hope you liked them. Dad, I am sure that you will be reelected. Sorry I can’t cast a ballot for you.
I am enclosing another check for ten dollars to apply on the 2nd Nat’l.
Hope that this letter finds all of you greatly improved. Don’t worry about me as I am getting along ok. My men also are getting along fine.
We haven’t had any mail in quite a spell but we probably will receive a great deal of it before long. You know there is nothing like letters for pepping ones spirits up.
My dog and the pups are coming along just fine. They surely are getting frisky as the devil.
I dropped the Aunts a letter this week. Hope that my mail to you continues as well as it has in the past.
You know I even believe I will be able to build a house by myself after this is all over. I’ll say one thing an officer in the Marine Corps has to be an all round man. You have to be everything from a psychologist to a man of nerve and muscles of steel.
By the time you receive this I suppose that spring will be just around the corner. Well, we have two seasons here hot & rainy all the time.
You know it is a funny thing but everywhere you go you find flys & ants. Did you ever think of that before. Oh! Yes we now are starting to get mosquitoes.
We have our bivouac fairly well built up now. But, it seems as if ones work never ends.
Don’t forget to write to me often as I always look forward to all your letters.
I’ll bet those children won’t know there Uncle when he returns. You know it will be two years this August since I saw them.
Must close now and get busy on some studying. I surely have a great deal of that to do.
All my love,
Leo
1st Lt. L.J. McLoskey
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