Transcript May 15, 1954Dear Ila, How everything with my best girl these day’s as for myself I am fine so far. The weather here isn’t too bad, I have seen better day’s over here. How the weather back there? Well I got about 17 more day’s left over here in Korea. In a few more day I will quick work in this place. (But I never work hard in this place.) I here that you want another picture of me. I will send you another one when I get one. If you every want...

Transcript March 29, 1952Dear Ila, I got your addrest from Jack Leamo he said you wanted somebody to write to you. I should leave Korea about Jun of this year, but I still have a year or more to go in the army so I will write to you as long as you want me to. I don’t know what to write because you are the only girl I am writing to besides me mother and sister. I would like you to send me a picture of yourself. The not much to say about myself I came from...

Transcript 6/8/53Hi, you lovely little doll, A letter from you this evening, which was a great help to my morale. I hope you notice that there is an E on the end of morale. You spoke of my morals in the letter but that is an entirely different subject alltogether. You check the dictionary and I’m sure you will find quite a difference between morale and moral. My morale is quite high and my morals are even higher considering the circumstances. At present I don’t have any...

Transcript Tuesday January 12th, 1954Hi Ila, Glad you answered my letter so soon, so I better get busy. I’m sorry to hear that you didn’t get the job that you had in mind, I know it must be kind of tough for a girl to get a job anyway. What kind of work are you looking for anyway? There seems to be a lot of work here in Saginaw. So much for that. Gee whiz, Honey, you should know me pretty well by now, I mean the way I think and feel and and everything. I’m not giving you a line...

Transcript Sept. 23, 1953Hi Ila, I’m sorry if I didn’t seem to answer your letter right away. But I’ll try to redeem myself, honest. I would have come over that night but my brother had a date all set for me. But what a snob she turned out to be, never again. Guess what happened to my car last week Thursday? Well it seems that either I, or the guy that rides to work with me dropped some ashes on the seat and set it on fire. The inside of my car was a wreck. There was about...