4/21/43
Dear Folks & all:
Received your letter dated 4/11/43 and Dad I just knew you would be elected. You almost had a complete landslide didn’t you.
Mother, I hear you are having quite a time with the plastering. I’ll bet it will look swell when you get it finished.
My shirt and trousers are soaking wet from sweat. To me this past week has been the worst I have ever experienced as far as heat is concerned. It seems as if one just swelters twenty four hours a day
Nothing much new down here. Still the same old stuff. Waiting, watching, working. At times it gets bad on ones nerves. One thing I am so dern busy all the time that I hardly have time to think about the heat & etc. Believe me I have a great responsibility on my shoulders and I pray to God every evening that I will be able to perform them faithfully, honorably and when we really get in the toughest of the fight for freedom to be able to lead my men to victory.
My dog and the pups are really getting huge. My dog is the favorite pet of all the Marines on this atoll.
Hope that you will get the flowers for Easter that I sent money to Arling’s to send to you. Mother, did you buy yourself a new Easter bonnet. Wish I could be home with all of you.
I also hope that you both will be able to take a trip someplace this summer to some quiet place so you can relax.
Heavens! I do hope that when you receive this that all of you are in the best of health and nobody ill.
I received a nice box of cigars from Mary today. Was I ever glad to get them as we have been out for about a month. Leota also tells me she has sent me some. As yet I haven’t received them but they will be in before long.
Dad you have your troubles as a counselor and guide with your people and I surely have the same with my men and I have found that you have to be firm in dealing with people and I now realize why you deal firmly with yours.
All my love,
Leo
1st Lt. L.J. McLoskey
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