1944 december 5

Dec. 5, 1944

Tues 1730

Dearest Mrs. Morgan -

Under our new schedule we have a bit of spare time between school closing at 1700 and chow at 1800 so I will try to give you a word or two. Tonite there is a movie I wish to see. It is “For Whom The Bell Tolls”. That will make 3 movies in a week. Isn’t it awful.

We have surely been having a lot of rain but the wind dries it up in a hurry. Last nite I washed some things & they hung in the most gosh awful down pour all thru the early morning and yet my hankies & hats are dry this afternoon and the other things will be dry by dark.

These past two days have practically missed me they went by so fast & the remainder of the week promises to do likewise. This week we are studying a piece of gear for which we should have more time  as a result time flies. This gear has 29 tubes and transmits or receive on ten channels at the mere selection of a channel by the pilot. The tuning is done by an automatic mechanism which is quite marvelous.

Getting to your letter where I left off Sun., it seems that I neglected to mention to you the possibilities of having you with me in my post-school assignment. Well, an instructing job or an assignment of a permanent nature to a land base in the U.S. should allow having you with me. There are instructors who have been here for two years & of course they live off base with their families. That makes the navy very much like an ordinary job. I don’t know whether you know just how much I want you with me, but, darling, there is in the back of my mind some sort of hankering for a sight of the world. I suppose if I wanted you with me badly enough I would just forget that desire. I will concede this much. If I can possibly get an assignment on the west coast which has the appearance of permanence with the possibility of bringing you to me, I will jump right at it. An assignment like that should give me the practical experience I want just as well as any. But I positively refuse to consider an instructing job.

I resent your opinion (and Reed Laker’s) that we were spoiled at Del Monte. That is an absolute impossibility, because we were far from that. The truth of the matter is that we were overdriven. I like it here much better for that very reason.

Time to go - so I will write again in a couple of days.

I love you & our babies, oh, so much I can’t begin to tell.

I love you, I love you

Rex