Morning, Hon-
Just a note to say I love you and that everything is fine here. Boy, I live the life of Riley—don’t even have to get dressed when I roll out in the morning. Just lay there and think about what I’d like to do most. This morning it’s a short line to you and then to read Whitaker’s “You Can’t Escape History.” Feeling diplomatic this morning.
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It’s evening now, Dear, and I have had a good day. Read as I planned this morning, and then in the afternoon I got hold of a copy of Benet’s “A Book of Americans,” a funny little book of poems on people in American history. I read it all, and enjoyed it as I do all of Stephen Benet’s books. He puts a real flavor & life into U.S. history, don’t you think?
Came across Captain Drass of A Company as I wandered thru a ward today. We had a good talk about our recent experiences—I find more people I know here. I am one of the few that can walk O.K., so I have a regular visiting list—Lt. Ferris, a replacement who had the 1stplat of C Company a few days (a good Joe, reminds me of Justin); Lt. Turley, who led the tank platoon I worked with; Ernie Shelton, whom I met here, and now Capt. Drass. We swap yarns and quite a time.
Also today, I started exercising the fingers of my left hand by playing around with a pencil. They are plenty stiff, as you can imagine. They all work O.K., tho, just a little sluggish. And that little finger is still numb as can be. Doc says the nerve to it must be banged up a bit. Aside from a little soreness around the wound, that’s all I can think of to grouse about. I must be getting better—altho I can see that I am in paradise here, I am beginning to find things like that to complain about. People just can’t appreciate being well off can they? If we all had wings we’d complain that the feathers weren’t long enough!
Let’s discuss post-war plans tonite, huh? I love to do that, and the more clear our aims are, the better we will be able to act when the time comes. Let’s see, the first thing when I get back to the states will be to get together just the quickest way we can—and stay together if it the least bit possible. Maybe we could meet in New York where I disembark—maybe spend a day or two there & have some celebrations with Laura & Justin. Then we could take off for home, see the folks for a day or two & then retire by ourselves for another honeymoon in Boston for a week or so. We could stop in Boston on our way up from New York, but I expect the folks will be anxious to see us, so we better fulfill our duties before we withdraw to ourselves! Our honeymoon in Boston will be one of those perfect periods—like the other one, or New Orleans. We won’t need to get “re-acquainted,” we are far too close for that; but just as a reward for being long apart.
Then we’ll come back to earth, or at least part way, and scoot up around UNH to see Dr. Carroll & get some data on the educational situation. I have mentioned, haven’t I, that I would like very much to pull a quick one and get my master’s degree immediately upon returning to civilian life. I think it can be done because we will have some money laid aside, “veterans benefits” will be going full steam, we won’t be settled or committed to anything else ourselves, & it would be a good way to re-contact the circles we want to be in. You can see the difficulties of breaking into education when I first get back, and also, the dangers of trying something else for awhile—it would be so much harder to return to studies. Say then, we plan on from 9 months to a year of study, readjustment, and angling for opportunity. May be hard to do, but I think it is worth shooting at. During that time we can arrange our next step—teaching (H.S.), instructing & studying at a university, or whatever comes along. At any rate, we’ll try to be together thru all of it, and that alone will make it all good and easy. Of course, there will be other problems, but they’ll seem easy with what we’ll have on the ball. As I have said, we’re no ordinary couple—together we’re unbeatable.
I love you a thousand times,
Wallace.
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