Letter transcription:

Lieut. R. S. Yegerlehner USNR
Navy 60 F.P.O. San Fran. Calif.
Aug. 13, 1943

Dear Mother,

The picture would not be complete unless I told you the laundry got dry yesterday. So that is that for another few days.

You remember I wrote you one day about the topics to write about – Laundry was one, weather was one – mail was one – well I’ve hit laundry pretty hard in the past few days – weather hasn’t come in for much only in an indirect way relative to laundry – at that time I said the mail topic was always good. The topic might be good but the mail is again slow. I believe I forgot to tell you a letter came day before yesterday from E. Towers, Sr. It was written on Jan. 5. Seven months – I haven’t answered it yet. If you see he or the girls you might mention that I received such. I’ll try to answer it someday but writing is really a problem as I’ve so often told you.

If I were the romantic type I guess I’d have no trouble writing to you but you know

[page 2] how that is with me. I’ve read pages of stuff like that there! from boys to wives and girlfriends. Really it’s peculiar how many words there are that, shall I say possibly, sound well that have so little meaning to anyone else except the receiver of the letter – and in some instances I wonder! Some of those letters are fun – shame on me! I think someday I’ll fill a letter to you with the different ways a letter might start. There a lot which I hadn’t thought of, or rather a combination of words that are fitted together to express greetings which are I won’t say sensible but usable.

Now to criticize my own letter – most of it is just plain fitting words together in order to fill up space so that I can say I keep up the habit of writing every day maybe that is being a hypocrite but if we understand each other the hypocrisies (awful big word) are meaningless – anyway il I’ll close and let a lot of meaning be conveyed in

Lots of Love Daddy

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