I got another V-mail letter from home on the 6th and a swell letter by airmail today. I enjoyed reading them very much as always. Airmail seems to be several days faster than V-mail, so I am going to start using it exclusively when writing home.
I can’t say that I hoped Mom and Dad enjoyed getting the cablegram I sent because it carried what must have been unwelcome news. But I figured it would beat my earliest letter by at least 10 days, and would let Mom and Dad know I was okay that much sooner. They must have suspected the truth before they heard from me anyway.
In the cable I said only what someone who should know told us we could say, but by the time it got home, I guess so much had been cut out of it that it made Mom and Dad worry more instead of less. I’m curious to know what it did say. Mom and Dad still don’t know where I am, except that I am overseas.
I wonder if my letters have been very heavily censored. I know it’s no fun for Mom and Dad to get a letter if it’s half blacked-out. So I’ll mend my ways if necessary.
Was glad to hear Mom and Dad are all working and making lots of money. I wonder how hard the pay-as-you-go income tax hit my parents in July.
Of course I’m eagerly looking forward to news about my parents’ new house. One of these days I’ll probably get a letter and find out that they’ve been living in it for a couple weeks.
Yesterday evening some of us went to see “Berlin Correspondent”. It was kind of “corny” but well worth the price. Tonight I saw another free movie, “Her Cardboard Lover” with Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer. I got quite a kick out of it.
[letterstohome copyright 2008]