September 19, 1944

	I Love You Honey! Tuesday 19 Sept 44 France My Darling Peggy: Crowed a little to soon in yesterdays letter about not getting any mail from you. Received two letters and they were wrote Labor day and mailed the 4th. There are probably quite a few of them out. I Love You Honey, and miss you an awful lot! Am glad that everything is coming along O.K. When I never received word from you I was kind of worried. Hope you never got sick on the trip home. If possible they needn’t know that their about to become grandparents.
	Will get ahold of Mary Aleschrins(?) address for you as soon as I can. But please be patient, because I can’t locate him as yet. But as soon as I get oriented around here I’ll try & accomplish the mission. I Love You! I forgot all about Labor Day until you mentioned it in your letter. But then everyday’s alike here – only on Sundays we go to Church. Saturday [nite?] is just another cold damp night with nothing to do & no place to go. Ask dad where he landed when he came to France. [Chess’s?] dad sent him a few of the ports etc. & they
	almost duplicate ours.  Just for the sake of comparison. Believe I’ll hae to go back to school after the war - ‘cause I can’t even spell anymore, let alone write! No Honey as yet I haven’t received an Iron Mt News – although it does take about 4-6 weeks to get over here – guess they swim! Well Darling goodnight & May God Bless You! I Love You! Love, Kisses & Hugs Your Hubby Johnnie

Transcribed by Cindy Koszarek

September 18, 1944

	I Love You Darling! France Monday 18 Sept 1944 4 PM Dearest Darling Peg: Somewhere there’s a saying which goes like this “Silence is Golden” but I feel there isn’t enough gold in the world to compensate for you’re letters – meaning of course – that I never heard from you again – the last letter I received was dated Sept 1st and wrote in August – that’s a long time. Hope there’s nothing wrong with you. And then again it may be the mail – but everyone else are getting their letters so I’m wondering! I Love You so darn much that it’s just isn’t a day without one of your letters. Hope the war ends – or at least something happens because it’s getting
	darn cold out here. And sleeping isn’t the most pleasant thing in the world when you’re half froze! It’s been raining all day – you know one of these cold rainy dreary days. There should be a law requiring everyone to sleep on those days! I Love You Darling! Enclosed is a five franc note – ten whole cents worth of paper. Have been drinking some apple cider. It’s a little different than that we have back home – this stuff tastes like a barrel of rotten apples – this crap they call Cognac is as scarce as hens teeth – it’s awful tasting stuff anyhow so it isn’t hurting!
	Hope you’re feeling good Honey - be sure & take good care of yourself. My foot is much better, but still in need of care. Outside of that I’m feeling fine. Was pretty lonesome last night when I failed to get a letter, but this morning I awake with new hopes & higher spirits! Am going to write to Sammy, see if I can shake him loose with a letter - Darling be good & take care of yourself.  God Bless You! I Love You Hon! Love & Kisses Johnnie.

 

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September 7, 1944 *Partial*

I Love You! England Thursday 7 Sept 1944 9 PM My Dearest Darling! Have been playing “Black Jack” the bigger part of the evening, and now I’m so sleepy. I can hardly hold the pen, but shall manage, I hope! By the way, I won! This darn country has a guy groggy all the time! I Love You Darling! The oddities of life – Monday I received a letter from you postmarked Aug 26th – Tuesday Aug 25th – Wed no letter – today Aug 23rd & 24th. I wonder if my letters are getting home to you the same! Hope to hear from you saying you know where I am!

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September 4, 1944 *Partial*

I Love You Hon! Monday 4 Sept 44 “Labor Day” Dearest Darling: Received another letter from you today. It was wrote the 25th. There appears to be about a dozen of your letters still missing in action, so one of these days I should be deluged with mail from you! Last night Honey I started a letter to Ma & just finished it tonight, lazy eh? It’s still raining out Honey, I guess the sun never shines on England! Egad, every time I start writing here they start a game of poker, and here I am

divided in my attention, each word I write someone bets a six-pence & I have to stretch my neck to see what their betting on! Such is life in the Army! I Love You Darling! Sure busied myself today – served on insignias & by the way my cross-stitch is better than ever. And I also did my 4 month Laundry! So tonight when I hit the hay I’ll have a good clean conscience, and will be able to sleep much better, of course I lay awake at night worrying about

 

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September 3, 1944

	I Love You! Sunday 3 Sept 1944 6 PM My Dearest Hon: Guess I’m going to have to get accustomed to my mail being spaced by 3 or 4 days. As it is it’s 3 days again since having a letter from you, and it’s hard to keep writing something when from day to day everything remains the same & there isn’t a letter to answer. But it’ll be done as long as I’m away from you! I Love You Darling! At this time back home I imagine you’re getting ready for Sunday dinner and we have already eaten supper and will probably hit the stereo in a few hours! We did have a good
	chicken dinner today, so there’s really nothing to gripe about! Received Holy Communion this morning. And all the rest of the day I’ve slept, spent it like a man really should spend Sunday. Remember when we were at the gap? – Sunday seemed to be a day when they would decide to work! But Gee it was wonderful! I Love You! Am so darn lonesome for you Honey, sure wish they keep driving over there so this will end soon. What do you think of the war news Honey? Man are they ever going eh? But the game isn’t over yet, the game is never over till the last man is
	is out, and it usually is that a team will fight harder at the end. So almost any day now I figure the [Hienes?] will put up a hell of a fight! The guys are playing solitaire for money here. They sell the deck for 52 cents and pay off 5 cents for every card turned up. The guys selling usually wins! Darling toodle doo for today, will write again tomorrow! God Bless You! I Love You! Love & Kisses

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September 2, 1944

September 1, 1944