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A Letter Home
October 12, 1955
Dear Grandma,
I’m writing to let you know that the Army is not so bad as I thought it would be. I survived boot camp and that first year. When I got orders for overseas, I thought my life was really
over. But coming to the Philippines turned out to be what you would call ‘a blessing.’
I’m up here in the mountains, in a town called Baguio. It’s not too hot and we hardly have any mosquitoes. Camp John Hay is the closest thing to heaven that a military installation
can be. There’s a watering hole off base called the Igloo. That’s where I met Isabel, Isabel Aurora Lim.
That’s why I’m writing to you, because you always told me, ‘Parker, you got a lot of good comin’. Well, Grandma, you were right. I met the girl I want to marry.
Don’t worry, Grandma, Is
