March 13, 1954 Vieques, P.R. Hi Darling, Received three of your letters - or volumes I should say. I like to get all of you letters especially those big fat ones. We went to the beach this afternoon and the water was really nice. I may go again tomorrow - we can't go to the cock fights Sunday as they start at 9am and we don't have any way to get there. Maybe by next Sunday we'll have some transportation. I would really like to see them. Before this weekend I was griping about not having any time off, now I wish we were working as the time is really dragging by. I need you baby - more than ever before. Well I'd better quit my bitching and answer your letters. Sounds like the shower came out real well - I knew it would honey. With all of those things you got, guess I'll have to move all my clothes back to the base as there won't be any room for mine. Wanda I don't like the idea of you not being able to sleep - shook up or not - please take care of you for me. Honey I can hardly wait until our second honeymoon starts - boy it will be heaven to have you in my arms again. I can't understand why we're so happy - I like it like that so we don't need any reason - lets keep us happy for the rest of our lives. I put the screws to those mosquitoes - got me a mosquito net. They spray the area everynite with DDT, but I believe that stuff just gives them an appetite. Honey I believe it's already rotted off as it hasn't stuck his head out since that last dream I had about a week ago. Think I'll just whack him off and send him home to you as I damn sure don't have any use for it - just more dead weight to carry around. Don't worry about what you told mom about that church - you were right in what you said. She knows you're right but won't admit it. Don't know why none of my family didn't show up for the shower - piss on 'em all. All I'm interested in is you as long as I love you like I do now all other friends and relations can go to hell - I just want you baby. Once again Wanda I don't give a damn about any dents in the car - they can be repaired - just don't you get any dents in you cause they can't be repaired and you can't be replaced. Yes we'll have to have a washing machine cause I can't see washing out 72 shit catchers by hand. I'm learning how to take care of babies. You gotta rinse diapers three times - I don't think it will be necessary to borrow any money - I can borrow some later if we have to. Yeah I'd like to lay some tile for $1.50 an hour - lots rather lay you though for nothin. You know it's rough to be cut off like this but that the M.C for you. It doesn't seem like we've been married 10 months then again it seems like you're all I've ever had - I know one thing for sure - you're all I want. Maybe this payday I can send you enough to get Sears paid off. Poor ole Nancy looks like she's gonna die with her cherry unless she gets her love affairs straightened out. She's a cute little gal, that will be good tail for someone. I bet if Poole had stayed around any longer he would have got a little of it. Wanda if you ever treated me wrong I wouldn't have to tell you, you could see it. I'll send Nancy a postcard if I can find one. Tell her I can't give any more instructions by mail - the rest would have to be given in person. Yep I'd like another baby come Dec 55 - can't ever tell one might come before that. I hope not cause two babies so close together would be hard on you. Tell you what - you have this one and I'll have the next one. Honey here's some bad news we con't land at Onslow beach until the 25th of April, it's just a few days different but it will hurt - every hour away from you hurts me. I'll be home as soon as possible unless I get out of the field problem it will be the 1st of May before I'll get in. Send me that telephone number of our neighbors. Maybe I can have you to meet me somewheres on the base. I'm gonna try to get off of the field problem long enough to come home, then go back. Long still has his troubles. He didn't get any mail yesterday. The last letter he had his mother in law had come down and he hates her. Also Helen wrote Ryan telling him about the baby - it had black hair and Long got shook up about that. We told him she just didn't feel like writing - I don't think I would if I'd just had a 8lb. baby. Helen said she had a hard time and had many stitches. Honey I sure hope our baby doesn't hurt you like that - I don't want you to hurt for anything I know it will hurt you some but please don't let it hurt much. Wanda no matter how much pain, it will be worth it. That baby will be one more spoiled brat, I love it now and will love it more when it gets here. Just as I love you now, I'll love you more when you give me that baby, I really want it Wanda. I'll never forget that nite you were kinda down in the dumps and acted like you didn't want the baby - that really hurt me but now I know you want it and everything will be alright. Wanda please don't worry about anything - it's not good for you. I wish you were here - not only to be with you, but so you could see this place. We're on a hill about a mile from the ocean. That water really looks nice from here. Those coconut trees are pretty too. Today at the beach we got some coconuts, punched a hole in them and drank about a quarter of the milk then filled the with rum. At the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan they serve drinks like that for 1.25 a coconut - here we get them for nothing. This operation is proving pretty expensive for the M.C. So far (2 weeks), they've had 7 men killed and about 20 wounded. Thursday a 105 sheer dropped short, killed one, wounded three. Most of the dead were drowned. They figure one man should be killed per month. One man got shot with a rifle. So the F.B.I. is investigating every rifle that was fired that day. Warner Bros. found one that had been hit by a truck after he;d been dead for a couple days. All of that sounds bad - it isn't though because if these many men were at teh base, just as many would be killed in automobile accidents. We're still getting the J-ville news. Remember the Army hero that returned from the POW camp. He died and was exposed as a Red. There goes J-ville's hero. The Nash place there burned down. Long's baby was the only one born at the Naval Hospital on the 6th. I think I told you about the wreck at the railroad crossing at Camp Knox - anyway a couple were killed and several banged up. That's rough about one train a day comes through and some gyrene has to hit it with his whole family in the car. I had two of my guys to go over the hill last nite. They have had it. I can't understand why they did it. All they had to do was ask me and they could have gone on liberty, as the liberty list wasn't full. Marines having been here since 1938, they're still getting fouled up with these whores. They say in Isabel they have a place where the M.P.s aren't checking that there's 15 whores laid out on the ground and you can take your pick. I was a picture of a couple of them this morning. Boy are they bags. I can't see why anyone would want them - even a single man that didn't have anything to lose. I wouldn't say there wasn't a woman besides you that could take me - one thing Wanda a whore will never do it. I love you - you're all I want and all I'll ever have. Even if I wanted another woman I wouldn't because I have to much to lose. You and that baby could never be replaced. I know I love you to much Wanda - I like it that a-way and it will always be like that as long as I have anything to do with it. Honey I'll shut up for now, I'll write again Sunday. Till then remember I love you and miss you more than I ever thought possibly. Goodnite Darling, I'm Yours Always, Dave Brad Tesh - transcribed 2005-01-04