February 10, 1944, Thursday

Hello Mom,

Will try to answer your letter received a while I ago. I had begun to think you weren't going to write. I hadn't heard from anyone for three days, but I finally got 4 letters this evening.

How is all the family? I hope you all are feeling as good as I am. Tom and I just came back from the PX. We are eating a pint of ice cream now, and it tastes pretty good. We also got some candy.

Guess we will shoot for record Tuesday, and we will also leave the rifle range and go back to the main station.

How does Boots look? Tell him I said hello and that he should be in the marine corps, where all the real men are, instead of the army.

No Mom, I won't be home the 20th. It will be in March some time, if we get leave. The days up here on the rifle range pass awful fast, and we don't do hard work either. All we do is shoot the rifle, and it's an awful nice rifle to fire.

I guess I will close now because I'm going to try to answer Louise and also Harold's letters that I got this evening before the mail goes out. I wrote a lot of letters on Sunday.

Love,

Your son,
Pedue