Lt. (j.g.) Gilbert
Steingart
U.S.S. Ocelot, FPO San
Francisco
Thursday 8 Feb. 1945,
7:15 PM
My darling,
Here I am
again. This has been a "bitch"
of a day. The way I was working today
would make outsider think I was getting paid for each operation. Began the morning with a nice juicy
cyst that almost extended into the nasal cavity. Then I had nine patients off other ships to
take care of. By 11:40 I had removed a
cyst, filled 14 teeth, X-rayed several teeth and extracted a couple more. After lunch I had a couple of treatments,
lanced an abscess and filled another tooth.
By then it was 3:00 PM. I was tired so I just quit.
I was talking
to a commander. He thought that there
was a tax forgiveness on 1943 incomes for men in service during 1944. Ask Dave if he knows anything about that. After all we paid over $5000 and all or part of that would come in real handy
later on.
Did my letter
of yesterday make sense? I was feeling
pretty good as you probably concluded.
The movie
tonight is the "Woman in the Window" with Edward G. Robinson. It is supposed to be 4.0 I do hope so and
also hope that it doesn't rain.
No mail
today. It has been several days now
since any "bird" mail came aboard.
I suppose I'll hit another jackpot in a few days. Also hope those other packages arrive soon.
I got the
"Esquire," January issue yesterday so I guess that'll be coming through
now.
Sweet, do you
remember the long walks we used to take on the ocean front when we lived in
Venice? Those were the carefree days but
more are just around the corner.
Nothing new and
nothing different so guess I'll sign off with love and kisses for my whole
family.
Devotedly,
Gil
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