Dart writes another short and hurried note after a long day of hard labor loading the ship with stores for it’s voyage. Now he needs to grab a few hours of sleep before his midnight watch.

He was grateful to get another letter and a Valentine from Dot today. It reminds him of how much he’ll miss her daily letters while he’s en route to Pearl Harbor. He expects the trip will take seven or eight days, plus another two or so until his letters will reach her.

“I wish it were possible to go without sleep so that I could write to you of what’s in my heart but it’s not. Sleep overtakes me now, almost the way it did one night in Cleveland. Only when I wake up, it’s not because you sighed, nor do I find you in my arms. I live for the days (and nights) when that will be possible.”