10 June, 1944 Saturday

Note: The events described below depict the iconic D-Day on June 6, 1944. 

Dearest Terry, 

When you read this, the invasion will have been heard of far and wide, and you, I know, would have felt the same suspense and expectations as I. 

I don't know how to say it, my darling, but the events of this past week have changed a lot of hopes and plans that I had mustered and have since so vainly put aside. That will be for the present, and for the future, the near future, at least I can not, will not dare to make a guess in actions or results concerning us. 

All I can say, sweetheart, is that we'll have to wait just a trifle longer for our hopes and dreams to materialize. It's not of our choice, not of our desires that we be made to remain apart. That being the situation, we can and will be big about the whole thing. 

I didn't intend to make this sound melodramatic, far from that, because there's nothing I'd like better, nothing I've longed for more fervently than to be with you again, and back with the folks I love. But there's a big "but," as long as there is something to be done over here, and as long as I can contribute to it being done, small as it is, I shall try to accomplish the same. 

Remember, Terry, darling, I'm still alive and still very much eager to stay alive, that's something to think about. And as for my part in coming events, it will undoubtedly be of a more passive nature than it has been in the past. 

So, you see, you won't have to worry your pretty little head off anymore about me, if that'll help any. 

If we both think about the boys down on the beach head, and the missing they must be feeling about now, and those who don't have any more cause to feel anything at all, I'm sure we can endure this so called postponement of ours, and go ahead as before, "grin and bear it."

The time will come when most of this blows over, when we can start our planning again and resume what we started to accomplish, you and I, a short while ago. 

You've probably sensed the extreme confidence and optimism that were bound to come out in my later letters. For this, I am sorry. But as fast moving events have happened since, a bigger thing than you and I, a change had to be made, and I know you'll understand what I've been trying to say. 

I cannot tell you the nature of my new status, and I'm all around hammered in by restrictions of words, but I'll leave the meaning of this letter up to you to interpret. 

Remember now Terry, I'm safe and very much on the live side of things, and I'm leaving it to you over there to stick with it just a little longer. I know you will!!

I'll leave you now darling, for awhile, but never completely, for I do love you so very much!!

Always yours, 

Jim