James Fortune ~Vietnam
Aug. 4, 69 (Mon)
Dear Chris,
I haven't been doing much. I wrote you yesterday but for some reason I feel like I should write you. I guess because you have been on my mind all day wondering what you have been doing and stuff like that. I just got back from the movie. It was pretty good. It was the Dirty Dozen.
I know that you must wonder why I ask to go to Vietnam. So really to tell the truth I just feel like it is something I should do. Myself I can't see my friends getting killed every day and me over here running all over the place hauling trucks and fixin them, when I can be over there.
So what have you been doing. Myself not much and today I worked on a tractor and trailer getting the lights to work and this morning I had Vietnam training. I know that you must wonder why I ask to go to Vietnam. So really to tell the truth I just feel like it is something I should do. Myself I can't see my friends getting killed every day and me over here running all over the place hauling trucks and fixin them, when I can be over there. Maybe not doing much but every little bit helps to keep our country free. Please Chris don't be mad or upset about it. I don't want to go, but does anybody. But I feel I must. Myself I am proud to be in the United States Army and to wear it's uniform.
So how have you been? Fine I hope cause I think about you all the time. I often wonder if you and I will get together. I am so many miles from you and want to be with you so very much. I hope and pray all the time that my orders for Vietnam will get back so that I can be home for 30 days with you. I know that you and I can be happy and have lots of fun together. You are really special to me. I hope that nothing happens to ruin what we have going for us.
I haven't written in quite a while. It isn't that you haven't been on my because you have. I was pretty shooken up about not being able to come home like I had planned to do. But that is over now and I am now pushing for my orders for Vietnam. I hope that they come back soon. Please keep writing. I really need your letters they keep me going. I will close for now. Remember that I miss and love you ever day.
Love,
Jim