16 July, 1944
Dear Folks:
Another Sunday and another week has gone. I trust that it won’t be many more until I will get to come home and spend a little time with you. I would rather that the war would end so that I could come home for good. However, I feel as if we still have a long hard road ahead of us.
I received a letter from Geneva Simmons and she told me you had been down to call on her and that you looked fine. I am glad you go to see her as I can tell from her letters that she is very lonesome.
Had a couple of radishes out of my garden. They surely aren’t very large yet. I just couldn’t wait. It has been a long time since I have had any fresh vegetables. I have two tomato plants that look as if they might survive. Boy! I surely hope so. I still like my tomatoes.
The mail has been rather spotty again lately. Considering how far it has to come and how many hands it passes through we do quite well. I know one thing mail is surely a large morale builder.
Not much news. I am ok.
All my love,
Your son, Leo
Cap’t L.J. McLoskey
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