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Chapman University Chapman University Digital Commons William Vasos Second World War Correspondence Collection CAWL Archives: Second World War 11-18-1944 1944-11-18, Irene to William Irene Vasos Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/wvasos_collection Recommended Citation Vasos, Irene, "1944-11-18, Irene to William" (1944). William Vasos Second World War Correspondence Collection. 23. https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/wvasos_collection/23 This Letter is brought to you for free and open access by the CAWL Archives: Second World War at Chapman University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in William Vasos Second World War Correspondence Collection by an authorized administrator of Chapman University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact laughtin@chapman.edu. 1944-11-18, Irene to William Keywords U.S.A., U.S. Soldiers, postal service, correspondence, wife, husband, marriage, women at home, love, Carroll, IA, mother, children, family, romance, money, funds, comradery, recreation and entertainment, leisure, culture, humor, father, coming home, post-war plans, loneliness, homesickness, Christianity, Halbur, IA, clothing, religion, Thanksgiving, holiday, celebration, food, education Identifier 2015.123.w.r._Vasos_worldwartwo_1944-11-18_008.pdf This letter is available at Chapman University Digital Commons: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/wvasos_collection/23   [[Nick Dante 10/12/16]] [[Vasos Correspondence #8]]   [[Page 1 - Letter]]          Nov. 18 - 44     This is Sat. nite.  Dearest Darling: To my darling whom I wish  very much was home with me  again. Darling will that day ever  come when you will come home  to stay. You never said truer  words than, That this separation  taught you, just what we mean  to each other. I really found out  just how much you do mean to  me. When you get home, hon. I  think you are going to have one  heck of a time to get away from  three, [[^]] I mean four,[[/^]] people. Do you know whom? I  know that I will be one of them and  Don + Judy + Patsy will do a good  job of showing you how much you  mean to us. Darling, I love you so  very – very much. When I think of                              [[Nick Dante 10/12/16]] [[Page 2- Letter]]  the future, when I will be able  to see you and talk to you and  love you all the time my heart  almost bursts with happiness. I  just can’t imagine what that  will be like. This separation  certainly has taught us just  what is really important to a  person and what things like that  can really mean to one. Darling  I never realized before just a  simple thing like putting my  hand in yours would mean to  me. Have you got those nice long  fingers yet hon. Remember how  I would used to say, when people  remarked how long the children’s  fingers were, I would say, just  like their daddy’s. They say Patsy  has such long fingers too  darling and hon all I have to do is  look at her and I see you.                               [[Nick Dante 10/12/16]] [[Page 3- Letter]]  [[underline]] 2 [[/underline]]   She has the blackest eyes, but her  hair are turning just a shade lighter.  I think, Darling she is so awfully sweet.  She thinks she is pretty big she can  almost turn herself over when I lay  her on the table. Katie put a doll  in her bed today and you should have  seen her play with it. She would  almost kick her legs off. When she  gets excited she just kicks and kicks,  and her little eyes get as big as dollars.  Darling do you think you will be able  to take all the noise and the other  different noises that take place in  raising a family. You haven’t lived  in any of that since almost a  year ago now. Gosh, hon last year  about this time we were wondering  when the notice would be coming.  I can’t hardly believe that I  have lived almost a year that  way already. Did I say lived                             [[Nick Dante 10/12/16]] [[Page 4- Letter]]  it was just existing, as you might  say. My heart was some place else,  on a certain sailor had it. Darling  you are the best thing that ever  happened to me. I want to do so  many things for you when you  get back. Can you guess what?  Just think darling to be able to sit  down in our kitchen and to look  across the table and see you  sitting there. – Just wonderful. Then  to walk in the living room + see  you sitting in the rocker with a  paper in your hands, how I used  to wish you would lay that  paper down + talk to me. Now I  would be content just to look at  you. Bill never leave me, please.  You mean so much to me. There  is so much you + I have yet to  do and so much happiness to  look forward to I don’t care                               [[Nick Dante 10/12/16]] [[Page 5- Letter]]  [[underline]] 3 [[/underline]]  if we never have oodles of money  or a fine home or beautiful clothes.  Just so you + I + our children are  happy and are leading a good life.  Then to reap the final reward of  heaven. To really love the Good Jesus  is the only way one can live and  live right. So Darling just be  yourself and we will be the happiest  family this world has even known.  I Love You. I dream about you, I  think of you and pray for you.  I went to Halbur today I took  Nick’s overcoat and Annie Eich is  going to make a coat for Don. Will  it ever be a nice one as the coat  is hardly worn. She says she will  start on it in a couple of weeks as  she is so busy. But she is going to  try + get this done as she knows Don  needs it.                              [[Nick Dante 10/12/16]] [[Page 6- Letter]]  It will be quite a saving and it  will be warm. I took Judy along  too, and did she have a time in  the store. I got 2 dozen cans of  carnation milk too. You can get any  amount that you want here. In  Carroll at the A. + P. they allowed  only 3 a person. I think I’ll get some  for Pop tomorrow as he is buying  it up too. Boy one really has to be on  the beam to get things. I bought  bananas today too, the first in a  long time. Thanksgiving this week, I  guess is why they got them.  Are you going to have Thanksgiving  this week? I guess the schools are  having it this week. It certainly muddles  everything up. Maybe you will be  home for Thanksgiving – “What a dream”.  Well darling until I see you again. Your  Ever Loving Family sends you all their  love + Kisses XX Don - Judy -XXX Patsy MommaXXX  XXX special honeybunch   

1944-11-18, Irene to William

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