She looked for his letters each week, and though they never arrived regularly, they came in packs of three or four at a time with postmarks from odd looking places. When Katy brought her three letters from the post office, Jess took them to the corner of a study room to be alone. Jan. 18, 1953 Sweetheart, I’m thinking about you right now. Every part of you. You know what I mean? I wish I could come to the campus where you are and walk under the trees. But I’m so far from that! Last night air strikes made these hills shake. I’ll tell you this, I understand now what my training was all about. Yesterday when we landed and waded ashore, I remembered “not to run in water, to let the waves carry you.” Then, as soon as we hit ground, we ran. You never know what you’re going to do under fire, but we found out real fast. Big guns fired from ships to the shore, but I didn’t know we were being shot at until I saw slugs hit the sand beside me. We ran full speed to find cover under a hill of ground.
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