DATE: 09/07/1942

SENDER: Gordon Thomas Kinder, Jr. (GTK)

SEND LOCATION: Ft. Sill, Lawton, OK

RECIPIENT: Ann Cary Stuckey Kinder (CSK)

RECIPIENT LOCATION: Gilman House, Phillips Exeter Academy (PEA), Exeter, NH

SUMMARY:

Danced twice at ‘the hop’.  Not much fun.  Princeton ROTC ’42 just arrived, promising a lot of fun.  Riding in the rain from 9 to 11.  Soaked, refreshed, happy.  Served as pall bearer for wife of former battery commander.  Very sad story.  Married in July, knowing she had little time to live.  GTK horrified at funeral, a spectacle.  Ft. Sill enjoying best rain in years.  Got a phone in his new room.