Monday, 5 November
1945, 9:00 PM
Dearest Eleanor,
A new week
just beginning. This business of waiting
is beginning to tell on most of us. We
sit around all day with nothing to do but get on each other's nerves. Nothing really serious has happened. But from time to time, there is
bickering. Personally, if I've got to be
out here, I'd just as soon do some dentistry, but no one has asked me what I'd
like to do.
This morning
I read the Omnibook condensation of "Black Boy" by Richard
Wright. It is well written and
interesting, but the autobiography ends so abruptly that one feels that the
book is incomplete. Now I'm half through
"Dan Sickles" by Elgcumbe Pichon, another interesting book
condensation. I believe you'd enjoy
reading it in its original form.
I've gotten
hold of some more snaps. Some are dups
of those I've already sent on and some are other scenes shot here and also at
Leyte. I'll send them along with some
more "gook" money. I don't
know the derivation of the word "gook" but that's what the natives
and anything pertaining to them are called.
Tonight's
movie was "Thrill of a Romance" with Esther Williams and Van
Johnson." There was so much music
and also so much of the Williams gal that it was worth seeing again.
I got two
more letters from you and one from your mother.
As you can see I'm not on my way home yet and don't know when that happy
day that I embark for home will be.
About dental
equipment. Don't worry. I'll probably get into something temporary at
first and take my time getting properly set up.
That is about
all for now. Goodnight my darling. I hope you can hold out as long as I
can. This can't continue much longer.
Love,
Gil
P.S. Here are a
couple of one peso Philippine notes too.
They are worth 50 cents each.
Leyte Natives
The Ocelot and the bow of the Nestor
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