April 17, 1943
Dear Mom,
Thank you very much for the beautiful Easter present. It was very well received.
I hope you and the family are all well. How did your efforts to get someone to help with
the house turn out? I am wonderfully glad that little Golden has had good luck. Be sure to make
the children take care of the chicks.
I should be extremely happy to have Pete come up for a visit. Send him right along.
I hope that the firing on the range doesn't become too oppressive. It's liable to last a
long time; I think that the war will keep on for may years.
What would you say to my joining the merchant marine? My chances of going to
officers' training school at my age are extremely few; no matter how well I did in in [sic] the
aptitude tests I would be sent to a front for two or three years. I'm not sure yet whether I can get
into the Navy.
Give my love to the rest of the family,
love,
Linus
April
17, 1943
