Letters Ray To Shirl a WWII Love Story

  Sept 25, 1945 Darlingest,         I love you.       Your letter and the card from Canada were waiting when we landed this afternoon.   Gee, that was a swell letter.   I’ll bet you had as good a time then even if the season was closed.   It sounded like it was your vacation and there were intimate little things that happened because it wasn’t so crowded.   Those young fellows weren’t so far wrong.   You don’t look as old as you are.   That’s easy to understand.   One reason is that you look so fresh and clean and the other in you are young inside.   What a swell combination.   You’re like after the rain.   Everything sounded so swell about the place.   Even in spite of the cold (which I like).         Sometimes I think we’ve both been blessed by a very great gift.   Being able to get so much out of little things that other people couldn’t understand and some even migh...

  Sept. 22, 1945 My Darling,        Your letter and card finally got here from Alamogordo.   Golly, I feel better now that I’ve heard from you.   The last two weeks were mighty dark times.         If’n my memory serves correctly you all had to go through Fort Wayne to get to MKNK.   Betcha that’s why it took so long.   You went this away.   The Pennsylvania RR must be silly.   Don’t they know that the shortest distance between two in the bush is where little acorns grew?   Were there several mouses or only one?   What were they doing on the trains?         Gee I hope you had a good time.   It’s too bad you had to have appendicitis on your vacation.   I sure was hoping that everything was swell up there.   Is Gail Gable a he or a her? On the stationary the Lake View looks like a massive affair.   Don’t see no pine trees though.          Gee...