Day: March 27, 1944

March 29, 1944

Dear Folks:

As April the sixteenth is your thirty eighth wedding anniversary I am now enclosing a check for you to do with as you see fit.  I only wish that I could spend it with you.  Hope you have a pleasant day and many more of them.  I envy both of you.  Who know’s, perhaps somebody will marry me when the war is over.

I have had a rather severe throat the past two day’s.  The doc has some fancy name for it but I believe I have been smoking perhaps a little to much.  We have been rather busy lately and with long hours my chewing and smoking help me keep awake.

Hope my letters have been getting to you sooner than I receive yours.  However, considering every thing I do believe we are fortunate that we get mail as often as we do.

Maybe they will decide to send some of us home before long in order that we won’t become as the Marines put it: “rock happy.”  That is one with a stare in their eyes and a far away look from being on an atoll too long.

Don’t worry about me as I am ok and hope this finds all of you batting a thousand per cent.

All my love,

Your son, Leo

Captain L.J. McLoskey

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March 27, 1944

Dear Folks:

The time surely does go very rapidly.  It must be because I am so darn busy.  I see the last time I dropped you a letter was March the twenty second.

I pray each evening that all of you are well and that they will send me home for a leave before many more months are gone.

This evening I am plenty tired and sleepy but I wanted to say hello to all of you before I took my bucket bath and retired.  If only I could stop in for a short visit with all of you.  Wouldn’t that be wonderful?

I got four letters from Libby today dating all the way back to Feb 17, 1944.  She surely does write one swell letter.  Believe me Robert was one lucky fellow when he got Libby.

Wow!  Surprise! Surprise! The man from the message center just left and he had two letters from you people.  They were dated March 8, 1944 and March 9, 1944.  It is now almost nine o’clock (pm) but this corporal told me he brought me the mail because he figured it was from my family and because I was always looking out for the men.  It really made me feel very good as a matter of fact so good that tears came to my eyes.  Yes Mother, Marines I do believe are tough in name and physically only.  Their hearts are the same as any other individuals.

The plans for the kitchen look very good.  I know both of you will like it.  Thanks, dad for the Veteran of Foreign Wars card and for paying the dues.  Also, thanks for the stamps.

I have so many things I could tell all of you but I simply cannot write.  By golly! We will have a big celebration when I do return.

Am enclosing a couple more snap shots.

All my love,

Your son, Leo

Captain L.J. McLoskey

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