Jan. 4th 1943

Dear Shirl,

or

Hiya Slugger

     Me and a blooming blizzard arrived in town on eachothers tail.  Did you ever have a blizzard on your tail?  A horrible feeling.  It was a very uncom. fortable ride.  I felt as if I were sitting on something hard.  I was.   Your radio tube.  Isn't that a pistol?  Radio man deluxe.  I'm a nasty ol so and so.  Gee, I forgot all about it.  I'm a gangster.  Ain't it?  I personally, with my own hands and feet, tested it in the lab  this morning.  Its ok, the trouble must be in the volume control or off-on switch which are in the same unit.  You'll probably need a new one.  They can't be fixed.  I'll send the tube back Monday when the post Office opens.  

     The blizzard is still blizzarding

Look here honey.  I still feel the same  and I ain't a goin to change.  I'm plumb set on it.  so there.  Doggone it we click on so many of the same things.  I don't care if you do have three chins.  Hey you promised me a picture way back in 1942.  That was last year.  How about it?  How about writing too?  I want to hear from you.  I said the army was ok except for missing people.  Your'e the people.  You know everything I could say so

Love and Kisses 

Ray