August 27th, 1944 Philippines
Dear Iz and Silvia,
Things have certianly been happening fast the past few weeks. Many of the events we’ve been hoping for and fighting for here finally materialized. I hope the victory has not created any over-op- tomism as to my homecoming. I shall probably spend many months of the coming year in uniform and my prospects for leaving the Far East are not good. Don’t be surprised if I should turn up in Japan. However, I have resigned myself to this possibil- ity and am even looking forward to it. Home still seems a long way off. Believe it or not, some of the things I thought I’d never forget are pretty hazy in my memory. It’ll sure be great to see it again. How about my nephew or nice? What’s holding things up? Have you decided anything in the way of a name? About the only reading I’ve been doing lately is magazines. e.g. Yank, Time, Fortune. Fortune rates tops with me; I don’t think there is a better magazine of its type. Nothing much more to say except that the neat camp life is the nuts and I’m doing a lot of swimming and sunning. I’m in good shape again and feeling like a million. Lots of Love Herm P.S. The title has just been conferred upon me for the coming years as, “the man whose hairline is most likely to receed.”
August 27th, 1944
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