3/25/43
Dear Brother & family:
Glad to hear that you are doing so well. Keep the old chin up fellow. They can’t keep a good man down.
Received your box of cigars yesterday and thanks a lot. They surely do taste good.
Tell Elizabeth I received her letters and I was glad to hear from her. Libby, you write a swell letter (what do I mean tell you, of course you will read this.)
Today and yet this evening it was hotter than all billy hell. Now, I hear a few rain drops and in a few more seconds it will sound like a flood. I don’t believe that the tropics were meant for a white man to live in or a white woman either.
Anne & Bobby your Uncle is quite proud of the marks you are making in school. They are so good you put your Uncle to shame for the ones he made at the same school.
Golly, would I ever like to see all of you. Tell the family I got the clipping concerning the Red Cross and that they did do a wonderful job. I see where the Democrats withdrew there candidates but I suppose Dad is still worrying. But, I guess I am as bad. I don’t let my men know but I have plenty of restless evenings from worry.
Now Robert you take care of yourself and don’t forget you are welcome to anything I have.
Libby, I hope that you and the rest of the family are feeling fine. Mother tells me Mary Alice is growing like a weed.
It is now 2:20 and I must close 7 go out and inspect my bivouac. I am feeling ok and we haven’t had any visitors.
All my love,
Leo
1st Lt. L.J. McLoskey
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