Dear Folks,

Well I guess just about everything has happened to me. Here I am in the hospital with a mild case of the flu. I went on sick call this morning and when I had some temp they put me to bed. I have been sleeping most of the day and I feel 100% better tonight. My fever is down and my only trouble now is to convince the doctor that I should get out of here in pretty short order. I would hate to get held over a class just because of this. Hope to get out at least by Mon. morning so I should be able to get caught up on my time. Such is life.

I received both of your letter the day before yesterday. It sounded like Dad really had a birthday celebration at the Eastern Star. The mail sargt. told me that the box you sent me was in the mail room. He said he would bring it over tomorrow. It couldn’t have arrived at a better time. It is bad enough to spend a weekend on the post let alone in the hospital. However, I am not complaining because we can get plenty of rest here and that is what we all need more than anything else.

Dad, I was glad to hear that your ankle is alot better. I hope by this time that it is entirely well. I’ll try to fix you up in the cigar line. I was going to get you some last weekend but all the kind I saw I never had seen back home before. So what ever I can get here’s hoping you can make use of them.

Up to date I have about 15 hrs. dual time and 20 hrs. of solo. I’ll probably only get about 10 more hours of dual and about 20 more solo. I have to get this in  in the next two weeks so you can see why I can’t afford to waste too much time here in the hos.

We get paid regular at the first of every  month. We clear about $75 a month. The army gives us about $130 and then we pay the civilian contractor for our board + room. There is alot of red tape to the whole thing but as long as we get out $75 everyone is happy.

As you can probably tell I am writing this in bed. Enough for tonight.

With love,

Tom