Dear Folks,

After quite a delay in writing you I’ll try to find time to at least let you know I’m feeling fine and hope you are all the same. The winter spell has at last been broken, at least for awhile. Most of the snow has been washed away by the rains so about all the real cold has vanished - not to my regret. We had quite a few days of sunny weather and clear nights, but at present we are having a bit of a cool spell-thanks to some rain and wind. However, (I feel sure we won’t he seeing any more really cold weather.

Lots of things have been happening, but I can’t tell you about them because of censorship. However, I can talk some about the operations we took part in a couple of weeks ago. Our division helped straighten out the remaining part of the Bulge - and did a good job, too. Of course the Engineers were up there, too, so we got our share of action. The Battalion Hq. was located a good ways back so all that I saw of the battle was on paper, though, a couple of times I did hug the ground, ducking from artillery shells landing close behind the front lines. Then, I went into one of the towns just a very few hours after it was captured, but I did that just to see what it was like - not under orders. All was well, though, and I somehow managed to write Dorothy nearly every day you once during the time. A few days ago I asked Dorothy to write you to let you know everything was OK with me, so you wouldn’t worry. I hope you have received that letter by the time this arrives.

There isn’t much more I can say, except that I haven’t been working too hard. I just now heard some good news - some of the officers in the same shipment as I have received mail. They are in different outfits than I but it all makes me believe that my long-delayed mail will be catching up with me before the week is past. Gosh, I hope I’m not too optimistic, but maybe.

I’ll have to close now and run an errand for the S-3 (who made major today). I’ll try to write more later on but I suspect my free time is nearly over for tonight. Write soon.