The Victory Club by Robin Lee Hatcher

Author:Robin Lee Hatcher [Hatcher, Robin Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RobinSong, Inc.
Published: 2019-03-11T04:00:00+00:00

V-Mail

To: Miss Dorothea King, Boise, Idaho, U.S.A.

From: PFC Gregory Wallace

Friday, April 2, 1943

My darling Dottie,

I guess you must have heard the news by now that I was wounded. I'm going to be all right, so I hope you're not too worried. I don't want you to worry, Dottie. I love you too much for that.

If you don't recognize the handwriting on this letter, it's because my eyes are bandaged, so I asked one of the nurses here in the hospital to write down what I want to say. I bet you wish I did that more often. You can probably actually read this one.

They've taken real good care of me since I came here from the field hospital. The army doctors are the best, and the nurses try to make things easier on the guys, making us laugh even. I hear there was some movie star who came through here last month, but I forget now who it was. Who knows? Maybe somebody else will come before I leave.

They tell me I'll ship out for the States in another week or two. Can't be soon enough for me. I'm eager to get back to you. Your letter, the one where you told me something real important about our future, caught up with me just before I was wounded in battle. It's hard, knowing what you must be going through there on your own. But you aren't really alone. We both know that. When I get back to the States, we'll get married. I'm more sorry than I can say for causing you hurt because of my actions. I know, even when we're forgiven, we sometimes have to live with the consequences of our actions. Still, I wish you weren't having to deal with this without me by your side.

I'm praying this letter won't take as many weeks to reach you as yours took to reach me. I'm praying it'll get to you before I get there myself. I hope when you read it you'll understand all the things I don't have the words to say or don't want somebody else writing for me. I think you will. You've always seemed to know my heart even before I know it myself.

Dottie, I love you. I think about you all the time. Thinking about you is what's getting me through the long days in this hospital and through the sleepless nights when I'm wondering about tomorrow. Sometimes the wondering about the unknown tomorrows is worse than any fear I felt in battle. I know we're not supposed to do that. I know it doesn't add one second to our lives. Funny, how I tell you not to worry and then do it myself.

I'll be home soon.

Love,

Greg

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