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Geo congratulates Leona on getting the ring and tells her he thought she wouldn't be writing anymore since she was going to get married. He tells her that he went back home and that if "felt funny to be with all civilians again." He is reminiscing…

Danny writes about how busy he is kept at the training camp in his new role as mess sargent. He is striving to be promoted to battalion mess sargent. He credits Leona with providing him with ambition. He jokes about his wife gaining weight with the…

Leona tells Danny that she's getting lazy with writing him. She promises to write him soon and asks him to forgive her until she does. She hopes he isn't mad at her.

Danny opens the letter as he customarily does, "My darling wife", even though they are not yet married. He suggests a GI wedding like the one he saw the day before and encourages Leona that if she comes to visit him that they will get married on site…

Leona thanks her husband for having send her a recent photo and she wishes that he will remain in this training camp, because she hates the alternative thought of him going "over there". She tells him how people at work are sharing their pregnancy…

Members of the Badia Family

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Badia Wedding Party 1944