Dear Dad,

It is almost bed time but wanted to get a note off to you tonight.

It rained here last night so you can imagine how nice and sultry it has been today. As I told you in my last letter which I wrote yesterday, I was suppose to get everyone up at 5:15 this morning but I didn’t wake up till fifteen till six. As a result 200 fellows over slept, but I also made 200 very good friends. The sarge didn’t like it so well but he was very considerate and only gave me one gig. Thank God for that, however, it wasn’t my fault because the switch board operator was suppose to get me up and I guess he over slept also. There isn’t an alarm clock in the whole squadron, not that that would have done me any good.

As you see I am enclosing 5 dollars. Mother’s Day is this Sun. and there isn’t anyway that I can get out of here long enough to even get a coke let alone anything to send home. I wish you would take this and get some flowers for Moms grave and also get Cleda either some flowers or candy. Whatever you think best. I am enclosing a little note to put this Cleda’s.

I have been studying navigation since I got back from my last class tonight. We have a test in it tomorrow and I haven’t had a chance to do much more than just the daily lessons i it so far.

I told you all about the swell weekend in my other letter. They told us today that they thought that this coming weekend would be our last over night passes. I hope that tuns out to be false, because a goods night sleep once a week isn’t hard to take.

I hope you got the fifty I sent. It bothered me keeping it around here all the time and by the time we get off Sat. afternoon all the post offices are closed so thats why I sent it telegraph. I kept about thirty five in cash so I will have plenty till next pay day.

I don’t have much time before taps and I want to shave yet. There is never enough time the morning to shave and that is one thing that they will gig you one every chance that they get.

Love, Tom