Dart is trying to figure out what to do for what is probably his last liberty in the United States. He’s thinking of trying to get a ticket for another concert because it’s free and it will keep him out of trouble.

He talks a bit about what his new address is likely to be and about all the rumors blowing through the camp about where they’re going. “Rumor has us in every corner of the world, from Southeast Pacific to Northeast Alaska, from the Bering Strait to the Straights of Magellan. In short, we know we’re going to the Pacific, but the Pacific is a huge place.”

Today he shipped some things home to Cleveland, including all of Dot’s letters that he’s answered to date. He would love to keep all her letters that he’ll receive while he’s at sea, but he doubts that will happen.

There’s nothing he’d like better than to write to her (other than being with her, of course) but at a time like this, words fail him. All he can think about is that he loves her always and forever.

He adds a sketch he’s drawn of the living and dining rooms of their future house. Then he fills the margins with several post scripts. The last one tells her that if he goes to Pearl Harbor, he’ll send her a grass skirt.