Wednesday Noon
February 2, 1944
Hello Fujiko,
Hope this letter finds you & the folks in the very best of health. Thanks for the greetings. I am very fine & anticipating new adventures soon.
This new camp I’m in now is a swell place compared to Shelby. Yes – it’s cold here too but not as cold as Miss. Today I had the luck of walking under falling snowflakes. Last week I visited W.D.C. again & met some mainland girls, it seems they do not know how to entertain boys from Hawaii. All they think we care for is to eat ice cream & talk, well this kind of stuff go good for people like your age – for us who have but numbered days to see all this grandeur go by, it’s being a waste of valuable time. One thing tho’ [sic] for my part, I had a wonderful time the first nite (2 nites we had). I met a nice girl who came from Tacoma, Wash. Yes, she is of Japanese ancestry, working girl, stenographer. Too bad she had to attend a club dinner the following nite, anyway before I left, I gave her my aloha – her address? of course I have it. Too many addresses can’t keep up with ‘em. According to news I receive from home there are lots of new improvements going on Kauai. I also heard that former boys stationed at Hppe . fire st. came back from the Madria [sic] Islands. They were surprised to know to-day [sic] I’m in the service too and way out here. Of course they do not know I’m about ready for embarkation. To see them again would be a great reunion for us all & I had lots of fun with them, on the ballfield & around town.
Since I have to write lots more letters I’ll say good nite and keep up your education – don’t be a “numbskull.” Give my best regards to your dad & ma & brothers & sister & Edna folks, bye bye.
Your Uncle
Hideo
P.S.
This may be my last letter for a long time.
