Letter transcription:

June 29, 1943
Lieut R. S. Yegerlehner USNR
Navy 60 F.P.O. San Fran C.

Dear Mother,

NO mail today so far but the day is still young. So again that makes writing a little difficult but I’ll probably think of something.

Censoring mail is a job hated and despised by one and all I’m no exception but it is a little thought provoking because here I sit reading some fellows personal thoughts to the one and only which under normal times would be a crime not to mention the underhandedness of the thing.
Then one wonders what the

[page 2] fellow looks like and also what the girlfriend or wife to whom it is going looks like. From the content of those letters one would think every gal in the State was a Miss Indiana a super duper prize winner in looks and a purified angel in actions. I like to think of what their relations will be say 10 years from now.

Then there is always another thing that I like to wonder about and that is the answers that come back to the boys. I mean the returns obtained from what is sent out but that would be mean to even think of. The above of course is pointless but

[page 3] it makes a distasteful job a little more pleasant and that can be applied to many of our present obligations the various and sundry of which are not too well liked. This last sentence almost got me down – didn’t know exactly how to get it stopped so I just pulled back on the lines said “whom” and hurriedly stamped out a period. That is another thing I’m getting low on is periods. Maybe you had better send another 2 dozen. (I’m all right). Now to be a little more serious.

In the May 15 issue of the Sat. Evening Post there is an article – “So We Don’t Know There is a War.” It’s about Spencer Indiana down in Owen County

[page 4] and it seems they are carrying on in keeping with every other county. Some of the names and places I remember very well.

Saw a fellow last night that had left the states in June ’43 and he even had starch in his collars and cuffs. We questioned him pretty carefully or rather greedily about conditions there just like we do of a person coming from a foreign land.

Believe it or not I’ve been writing on this letter for about two hours. Some of the time used in thought some for conversation and some just sitting – Hoping you are the same –

Love Daddy

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