3/28/43
Dear Folks & all:
Here it is another Sunday. I try to write to you at least twice a week. I know some of my letters must be en route somewhere.
Dad, I am confident that you will be elected but I am anxious to find out by what majority. Mother, I got a letter from Leota and she said that you said for her to tell me that you loved me and missed me. Maybe you think I don’t love and miss you and the rest of the family. I only hope and pray that some day we will all be together again.
Got quite a bang out of the way Bobby got his kites. Do I ever miss him. He wrote me a letter I got the other day. It surely was swell. Anne, also writes to me quite often and I think she is a swell kid. Well, as a matter of fact I have one swell family. Guess that so far I have sort of been the black sheep but I surely am trying to make up for it.
The temperature now at 4 pm is 105 degrees F. I’m telling you my face just peels & peels and my lips are cracked wide open. Also, on top of that I have the ring worm all over my forehead. All my men have it. It is a fungus growth we got from our blitz helmets. The sweat and rubbing seems to cause it in the tropics. Just give me some good old Illinois weather. You know I don’t believe I will ever complain again as long as I live. I actually believe I have learned to take things in stride as they come.
Only one thing would I love to do and that is let me and my men settle some of the strikes. I’ll tell you there wouldn’t be any union leaders left. I just wish some of them had to go through with some of the things me and my men have had to.
Anyway the outfit I have is rugged and that is the way I like it.
Hope that Robert is continuing to improve and that this finds all of you feeling fine. I am ok so don’t worry about me.
All my love,
Leo
1st Lt. L.J. McLoskey
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