Monday noon

[June 28, 1943]

Dear Mavis:

The best news that I have received since you have been writing came my way this morning.  I am just a little excited, so you know something is wrong when I get excited about something. Hope it is true that you all can get home this week, for I had just about reconciled myself to the fact that it would be at least two more weeks before you would be able to make the trip back to Mississippi.  Will meet you in Memphis when you are sure of your schedule.

It is so hot here now that it is hard to write. (Look at all these missed letters, [this was typed] I just can't concentrate on what I am doing, hope I am just about through with my letter writing.

We started combining oats this morning and it is going to be a hot job.  The crops are looking good, especially the cotton, but the garden needs a good rain on it.

Wonder what you all did yesterday; as for myself I just can't get used to the Sundays without you and Johnnie, for it is very lonesome here.  Mrs. Moore was sick again and couldn't teach her class at Sunday School.

As usual I went back to the show last nigh, Mama and Ruthel didn't want to see the show for it was another War picture and Mama doesn't like them.  The name of it was "The Flying Tigers". It was about the American boys fighting for China before America entered the war.  They were paid six hundred dollars per month and a bonus for each Japanese they shot down.  It was war in its most horrible way. I had a funny feeling during the show, for I wonder if I could face death as those boys did.

It is so hot that I am going to stop for I do not have anything to write that would interest you.  Hope I get good news from you in the morning, for I am so anxious to see you both.

Love, Ruel