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This letter was written in February of 1968, by a 1st Lieutentant, who was in Vietnam. Some excerpts from the letter.

Hi love how are you? I hope everthing is going well with you. Things here are fine. I could say "wish you were here" but I wouldn't wish that on anyone. I would rather say "wish I was there", How's that?.........I just returned from a little party with some of the NCO's. I ate 3 steaks. Right now I'm stuffed, but they sure were good..........I'm in the process of obtaining a weapon of my own I will be getting a 30 Cal. carbine in the near future. This will be my personal weapon to keep with me at all times. Maybe I'll be able to bring it home with me...... 

Written by a 1st Lieutenant, who was in Vietnam, in July 1968. From the letter…..Well honey, today was a fairly good day. Our command passed it’s 2 day inspection. Oh happy day, This was very important and a good score affects everyone. I have eight sections under my control and none of them received any deficiencies. (I’m bragging now) Anyway, I’m glad it’s over……I’m enclosing what I think is a cute picture of a little Vietnamese girl……Note the big pails of water she was carrying……..

Written by a First Lieutenant, who was in Vietnam, in April 1968. From the letter……I decided after the other night, I will be very happy when I depart from this place. Here’s what happened. I was awakened by a huge bug slowly crawling across my bare back. I waited until it got to at place I would reach it, and I killed it. Well, it turned out to be a cockroach about the size of a silver dollar. About a half hour later, I heard a sound which gave me a start. It sounded like someone had thrown something into the blades of my fan. Well, it turned out to be a rat who had unexpectedly walked into the fan. I turned the lights on and there he was all nice and dead. What a nice place this is isn’t it?

Written by a 1st Lt. , May 30, 1968, while he was in Vietnam. From the letter……What a day it was today. Even thought it was a holiday in the U.S.A. we didn’t honor it here. In fact the flag in our compound flew at full staff until 1000 when someone remembered it was Memorial Day.
I’m enclosing a couple of papers distributed by our psy-war people. They were dropped from a plane last weekend. The yellow one is a pass for the VC to give themselves up without being shot. The flags are of America (US), Korea, Thailand, Philippines, New Zealand, and Australia. I’ll help you out, the middle one is the flag of the Republic of Vietnam. The other paper tells the VC that they are among friends and to give themselves up.

Psychological Warfare paper mentioned in the letter above. Front view.

Psychological Warfare paper mentioned in the letter above. Back view.