Note: Based on the forwarding address, it looks like Grandpa is now at the U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot in Bremerton, Washington.

Dear Joey,

I have been meaning to write to you for a long time, but it is so damned hard to write from flat on your back.

Marge and Bess both wrote about your marriage. Congratulations fellow and lots of luck to both of you in the future.

It was certainly a surprise to me because you haven’t been in the service long and here you are going home already.

I expect a 21 day furlough when I get out of the hospital. I still have 3 more weeks in the hospital. I am recovering from a hernia operation I had last week. I guess I strained a gut while loading up in Washington.

Well, Joey, let me know what you are doing.

Lots of luck, your buddy,

Mickey