May 2, 1944 Tuesday

Hello Bunny,

Your real honest-to-goodness Sunday letter came today. I was very glad to get it. Clears up things a lot to see what you are thinking about these things. Now we can coordinate.

My leave will start on May 20 and I will get home Sunday night or Monday, not sure which. Now I will probably have to start back here on the 28th – that’s Sunday following, or maybe early Monday. So that amounts to about one full week at home. If you can get off for that, it should do very well. That would let you be back by Memorial Day.

If it’s a church wedding you want, let’s have one by all means. I thought it would be a lot more work and all. If it is possible, however, let’s do it. You can’t scare a tanker! Much.

On the blood test, I know N.H. is comparatively strict. However they have a whole section at the station hospital set up for pre-marital blood tests. The doctor here at Battle Trng. says that a test there is good in any state that requires one, for the length of time that the state has for its own tests. That would be 30 days for us. They have regular forms for it and it looks very official. I’ll keep in mind about getting an N.H. registered man, tho. I have the doctor filling out and signing the form now and will do everything to get to Camp before 5 p.m. this week to have the test taken.

The license plans you mention look very simple and effective!

In view of the fact that you will need to be back to start school on May 29, we would save travel time by going to Boston. I prefer whatever you say on that. The Bradford it will be. Can you make the reservation, OK?

Noon wedding, midnite weding or before breakfast is all the same to me, Hon.

One of the things I have learned recently is just how little I know about psychology. I never really have studied it, but these last months there has been a lot of chance to observe people. There is a great deal to know – they are all so complex. I imagine I would want to be with you always even if we hadn’t been forced apart. That emphasizes it tho, no doubt.

We can talk over all about summer school sometime when I am home. That’s in the next phase, so well get thru this one first.

You know that starting next Sunday I will be on a 2-week bivouac in charge of a platoon. I won’t get mail, and won’t write any, they tell me. So if there is a big silence from me the two weeks before we get married, don’t be at all disturbed by it. I will certainly let you know if anything comes up to interfere with our plans. And we’ll try to cover everything between now and this Sunday.

I will plan to call you this Saturday night, May 6, at 11 Court St., and we can see what the score is then. I will do everything to get that blood test and get my things ready to move out the minute I come off the bivouac.

If I turn up with a blood test and a big kiss (maybe two, or even more), can you see about the other things? Big order, but I hope you can do it. Let me know what else there is for me to do, too, if you can think of a thing I can do. Gee, they better not induct Bob before then, or we’ll be short a best man! We can pick up some guy off the street if necessary, tho.

My passionate pleas to trainees today totaled some four hours of actual speaking time, and I’m hoarse – there was a big wind (don’t say that was me, please) to talk over. I can still croak I love you, and mean it very much, Bunny.

Yours forever,
Wallace