April 14, 1944
Dear Folks & All:
Received your letter of March 29, 1944 yesterday. Wish I could have been along with you and Everetts when you went out to Grandfather Shawlers.
It just doesn’t seem possible that you could be having such bad weather when I am setting here in my shirt sleeves and the sweat rolling off o me. Boy oh boy! Could I ever use some of that cold weather.
Dad, I hear you are having quite a time with your fence. Guess we will just have to post a couple of Marines with fixed bayonets.
Hope they are coming along better with the kitchen. Once they get started they probably will go pretty fast.
Mother, our washing problem is quite a headache here. I finally got myself a washing machine built. I will try and get a picture of it to send you. Washing my clothes in the cement mixer didn’t turn out so good.
Am anxious to find out how Robert made out on his physical exam. I pray every evening that he won’t have to leave you and his family.
Looks as if Franz Ahlstrand got himself a pretty good job. The way everybody is going wild I believe things are going to be in one hell of a mess when the war is over. Looks to me like people who own real property will be the ones that are going to make out ok.
Got a letter from Martin Sorensen the other day which I will answer when I have time. I didn’t know that he had been in Washington, D.C.
I dropped the Sec of State of Illinois a letter the other day telling him that the men in the service didn’t think much of the way they had been deprived the right to vote. I had applied for a state ballot and they sent me a letter about two weeks too late telling me I had to declare my party affiliation. I didn’t mind telling him in my reply that I was a Republican.
Hope this finds all of you feeling fine. Don’t worry about me. I am ok.
All my love,
Your son, Leo
Cap’t. L.J. McLoskey
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