Letter: 6 Jan 52 Dearest Louise --
We have tennis courts, play rooms, libraries, barber shop, a fabulous bar room & an even more fabulous dining room, swimming pool, lounge and trinket shops all in the hotel. What a racket. The cost is out of this world also. $1.00 per day for room & 40c for a meal that would cost $3.00 in the states. Well one more day of this and back to Korea. Finish my missions & back home. It'll be good to be with you again. I dreamed that I had just gotten home the other night. I broke down & bawled like a baby when I saw you and the twirps. It all seemed so real. I'm never going to leave you again. I love you & miss you so much that I'm lost without you. I don't seem real anymore. All of this seems like a bad dream that isn't really happening to me. I'm going back to bed. I don't feel so good. I guess this gloomy weather has put me in the same state of mind. I'll write again tomorrow. Say hello to your folks for me. I hope that gramps is on the road to recovery. Say Hi to Jay & Jan, & give them the smooch that I'm sending. Love, Duke Copyright (C) 2000 Norman E. Duquette |
Good morning! It's nearly noon. I just returned from an 1100
o'clock breakfast. Miller & I & two other guys from the
squadron came on R&R together. We're staying at the Miyako Hotel
in Kyoto [Japan]. It's a very beautiful hotel. It outdoes the
Champlain Hotel in Plattsburg in luxury and beauty & size. It's
located on the outskirts of town & is built on the side of a
mountain, We have an enormous room on the sixth floor. It has
large windows running the entire length of two sides of the room. We have
a private bath & shower, stateside beds, living room set & felt drapes
on the window. Really a nice place. It's very cloudy today.
The clouds are sitting on top of the mountains. The grounds are very
pretty. The hotel is built in such a way that we can walk outside from the
sixth floor onto level ground. Up above there's a small stream & water
flowing right through the yard. The grounds slope up from the sixth floor
to the top of the hill and they are covered with moss and the green leaves of
flowers, green grass & trees. They say that in summertime the hill is
a mass of colored flowers. I wish I had a camera that I could take some
pictures with. I think I'll buy one before I go home & take a load of
pictures of Japan & Korea for you.