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Noemfoor<\/h6>\n
Thursday<\/h6>\n
[1 Feb 1945]<\/h6>\n

Dear Jesso,<\/p>\n

It looks as if I have been talking in a delirium.\u00a0 It is understandable that I thought I was home \u2013 God knows I ought to have been.\u00a0 Any bloody way I\u2019m still waiting for a sanguinary plane and none is in sight. Oh Lord, why hast thou forsaken me?<\/p>\n

All my little fums are to be so much air and fantasy, my little desires to be monuments of futility, and any welcomes to be jeering nothings.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve given up predicting my arrival \u2013 it rests in the lap of the Lodestars.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the point of my writing about nothing but sitting down near the strip waiting for a kite?<\/p>\n

I hope I\u2019ll be seeing my family one of these days.\u00a0 Teach little Graham to speak nicely and to think well of his old pa overseas.\u00a0 Be faithful dear, we shall soon start life anew.<\/p>\n

Your old old husband, Remember?<\/p>\n

Lotsa X\u2019s<\/p>\n

Bill<\/p>\n

\"AWW<\/a>
The Australian Women’s Weekly, 21 Apr 1945, p20<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\n

That was Bill’s last letter. It is estimated he made it home by Sunday, 4 February 1945<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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