Capt. T.G. Leske
71st Infantry
APO44
Fort Lewis, Wash.
1-25-43 (postmarked Jan 26 1943, Tacoma, Washington – on Army letterhead)
Miss J Axtell
538 S. Normandie
Los Angeles, California
Hello Jane!
Just want to say that I was, and still am, very sorry that you didn’t show up on schedule. The whole thing has me baffled completely – if it was a gag, it was a good one; if you were sincere that makes it worse yet as you seemed so definite, finally stayed home, wrote me that people convinced you to stay on the job, and then – "I can’t say what I mean or really why I didn’t come."
Glad that I have been in service so long: confusion is so normal that I was able to live thru (sic) the whole thing.
By the way, it might be interesting to you to know that, because I didn’t begin my leave on the day you were to come up it was cancelled and up to now I haven’t been able to get leave. Silver lining – can go anytime now but have no inspiration.
We are back on Fort Lewis now and life is going on in the usual stuffy post manner.
Reveille comes early and so to bed – Good night, happy dreams and –
Good Luck
Ted
