Kansas City, Mo.
June 19, 1942

Dear Doctor:

I wish to take this opportunity to thank
you for the fine recommendation to Gene Tunney. I
was quite proud of it. The letter no doubt helped
a great deal, because at the present time I am an
enlisted man in the great am vast Navy of the U. Se.

At the present time I do not have any
details except I do know I go to Norfolk the 20th
of July to begin training on July 22. I will be
ranked as a:Chief Petty Officer in the V-6 specialist
group. Our duties will range from sea duty to actual
combat and from land training to actual physical
education training. Our chief duty will be to get
and keep men of the Navy in the finest of physical
condition.

If everything works out for the best,
Doc, I will very likely get married sometime in the
latter part of October or the first of November to
Marjorie Siegrist. However, everything is so
unsettled and indefinite that anything can happen.

First of all I am in a big organization
and there are a lot of things that come before |
personai pleasures, but regardless of what happens
I will make the best of every possibility both for
my own personal good, and for my country's. I will
have great opportunities never before offered to me
and undoubtedly, the training should be marvelous
for me and make a better man of me,

Again, Doc, thanks for everything you
have done for me, not just the letter, but for
aiding in my development into a man, not only through
athletics, but for everybhing you are and stand
for. As you sated in your letter "a sterling athlete”
Doc, remember that above all I'm one of your many
sterling believers,

Thanks and hope to see you before I leave.

One of Your boys,

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