Excerpt from The American Legion Magazine, Vol. 34: January, 1943 This is the first letter I have written directly to my little son. I am thrilled to know you can read it all by yourself. If you miss some of the words it will be because I do not write very' plainly. Mother will help you in that case, I am sure. I was certainly glad to hear your voice over the long distance telephone. It sounded as though I were right in the living room with you. You sounded as though you missed your daddy very much. I miss you, too, more than anyone will ever know. It 15 too bad this war could not have been delayed a few more years so that I could grow up again -with you and do all the things I planned to do when you were old enough to. Go to school. I thought how nice it would be to come home early in the afternoon and play 'ball with you and go mountain climbing and see the trees, brooks, and learn all about wood craft, hunting, fishing, swimming and other things like that. I suppose we must be brave and put these things off now for awhile. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.