Capitán TG Leske
71.º Regimiento de Infantería
APO44
Fort Lewis, Washington.
2-25-43 (Tacoma, Washington – on Fort Lewis letterhead)
Señorita Jane Axtell
538 S. Normandía
Los Ángeles, California
¡Hola Jane!
Received your note before mess and am making haste to answer. That is one of my finer points-remember?
My "seventeen words" would not meant to sound quite as nasty as you appear to have translated them. I will admit my heart was not pure at the time but I was going to write a letter to follow. Unfortunately I forgot how soon you would have the first message let too much time elapse before writing again.
Since we’ve got back on the post things at have been very quiet. The only real piece of news is that we’re been put in the Army Ground Forces and are in fact starting to train for combat. The division is getting thousands of replacements and a big program has been started. Maybe the excitement of looking forward to going into a combat area prevented me from writing you.
If you are going to haunt me please do it half-heartedly or the whole thing may end up badly as before.
Still having gone on leave – same reason, no incentive. I’ll have to put my mind to it and find a nice reason, be it blonde, brunette, redhead or in between.
Took me two days to write this letter so I will close or several more days may go by before the urge gets me again.
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