Monday, Jan 31
Dear Mom,
I'm
glad to hear you had such a nice birthday, goodness knows you deserve it. I
hate to hear about Mrs. Brakemeyer[1]
not getting better and I feel awfully sorry for Mrs. Brakemeyer. I'd like to
write them a letter, but there is so little you can say in such a case so today
I bought the only get-well-card I could find that wasn't gooey sentimental or utterly
ridiculous. Maybe Mrs. Brakemeyer will improve as the weather gets nicer.
Tonight
we’ll probably have a big rain storm because torwards evening the sky became
awfully black & the clouds down very low and right now it’s just like a
misty fog outside. I miss fog out here in this country where it's never foggy.
There's something comfortable about fog – I guess it's because it's always nice
to get out of. Anyhow I’ll want to live where it's foggy some of the time any way[2].
This
is the week that marks the halfway place & it is this week & the next
three that have me the closest to worried because this is the time we do the
flying that will determine if we’re good enough to be graduated as abombardiers[3].
If I do O.K. this next month I don't think I'll have anything to worry about,
but it will be a very busy & trying..I don't know if I'll ever be so
anxious to leave a place as I will this – I guess it's the tension as much as
the surroundings here[4].
In
a day or so I will get paid again & since I've had but little chance to
spend money I’ll probably send a money order soon to replace that(sic) I took
out of the bank to buy my ticket here. I have not been reimbursed for my travel
expenses yet, but that ought to be coming soon too, to the tune of about 40
dollars.
Write
again soon because I always enjoy your letters so much because they sound just
like you.
Love
[1] A family
friend that I think shows up in other correspondence but I don’t have the
reference at hand.
[2] In
personal conversations, I have heard similar sentiments from longtime valley
residents. It should be noted that the opposite is true, that some don’t miss
the fog.
[3] Robert
did not graduated as a bombardier. He was transferred to navigator school and
graduated as a navigator.
The letter date not matching the posting date is nothing more than not having a Feb 13 letter handy and the desire to meet the daily posting goal. No conclusions about Friday the 13th should be made.
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