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December 5, 1955 – Monday

PVT E1 Christopher D. DeVier US 52 406 343, Co. C 506th Abn Inf Regt, 101st Abn Inf Division, Fort Jackson, S.C.

Miss Marjorie Glenn
3637 Hilmar Road
Baltimore 7, Maryland

Dec. 5, 1955
Monday 4:30 P.M.
I’m In Love With You Margie

My Darling,

Well here I am in the middle of no where. I hope you are fine. Its not cold today. I hope it lasts for a few more days then it will be over. I’m writing this letter sitting on the ground leaning against a tree.

Margie I love you with all my heart and I pray for you always. Margie I want you to be Mrs. Christopher Duvall DeVier more than anything else in the world. I love you Darling and I’m going to need you for ever and ever just as I need you now. Believe me I know I haven’t written much but they just haven’t given us the time to do anything. Regardless if you don’t hear from me some days, I love you and I’m coming home to you and you only. Oh Margie if I could only tell you how much I need you.  Darling I have told you this before and must tell you again. You are a blessing from heaven to me. If only I could find words. Margie I cried for you so the night I left you I could hardly see to drive. It seems that time has gone fast for me. I hope it has gone fast for you Darling. Every night when I go to bed I think that I am holding you very close to me. It gives me a wonderful feeling. Then I dream all night. I always have a wonderful dream about you. You are such a wonderful girl and I’m a very lucky fellow. Margie you are my life, and without you I could not live. Darling I hate to stop this letter but I have to put up my tent and dig a foxhole before supper and tonight we have another night problem. Please Margie don’t ever leave me please love me and I will do my best to make you happy. I need you so. Sleep tight my Darling. You are always in my thoughts. Good night Darling. Take Care.

My Life I give to you and my love for ever,

Chris

P.S. Love Me Darling

P.S.S. – Eleven more days

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December 4, 1955 – Sunday

PVT E1 Christopher D. DeVier US 52 406 343, Co. C 506th Abn Inf Regt, 101st Abn Inf Division, Fort Jackson, S.C.

Miss Marjorie Glenn
3637 Hilmar Road
Baltimore 7, Maryland

Dec. 4, 1955
Sunday 2:05 P.M.
I Love You Darling

My Love,

How are you today? Fine I hope. Darling just 12 more day and then we have a date. Margie I can’t wait to get home. If only I could tell you how much this Christmas is going to mean to me. I’m pretty lucky to have a wonderful girl to come home to.  I love you Margie. Nothing will ever change me as long as I live. I’ve been getting excited more and more every day. Just a little more of this place and it will be over.

You know something Margie. I thank God for putting us together. Not many fellows are blessed with a wonderful girl as I have been. Margie your letters have been wonderful. Your words and your love have carried me through an awful lot. You don’t know how much they have meant to me. And the packages of cakes, cookies and candies have been a wonderful help. You are an excellent cook. Margie please love me for ever and ever. I’ll never fail you. I’ll always do my best. There are so many things I want to tell you when I get home. I love you so much.

I know I don’t tell you much about the army but it is hard to put in writing. I’ll tell you all about it when I get home if you want to hear about it. Its not very interesting. Oh Darling I’m in love with you so very much. I never thought love could be so wonderful. I was crazy about you that night I touched in Poly and I’ve been that way since and always will be. I’ll never forget that night or any of the other days or nights we had together. I’m praying for a lifetime of days and nights with you. Christmas is going to be wonderful this year. Darling what do you want for Christmas? All I want is to be able to spend fourteen days with you. And then a life time. This past week has been pretty rough but it’s over with now.

They gave us the afternoon off today to get our equipment ready to go to the field tomorrow morning. Darling you can still write to me. They will deliver it to us out there. We also have to march out there about 17 miles. It will be just like real combat except no real ammunition except when w crawl. I think they shoot over our heads again. I hope not. The last time one boy had one go through his helmet. Thats too close.

Darling I hope I can prove myself to you. I can’t lose you. Will you love me always? I’ll be true to you. I wish I could find word to describe my feelings. I want you to be my wife Margie. We are always going to be happy together Darling. Please take good care of yourself and be careful. I need you Margie. You are part of me and I can’t do without you. We are going to have a wonderful time at Christmas. It won’t be long now Margie. Just a few more days. Take care Darling, you are always in my thoughts and dreams. Sleep tight Darling.

My love for you for ever and ever,

Chris

P.S. – I’m going to let you teach me how to write when I get home. My writing is awful.

 

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December 2, 1955 – Friday

 

PVT E1 Christopher D. DeVier US 52 406 343, Co. C 506th Abn Inf Regt, 101st Abn Inf Division, Fort Jackson, S.C.

Miss Marjorie Glenn
3637 Hilmar Road
Baltimore 7, Maryland

Dec. 2, 1955
Friday 10:30 P.M.
By Candlelight
I Love You Margie

My Darling,

How are you? Fine I pray. This week has been pretty rough but I lived through it. Next week we have bivwack. That is we spend next week in the field in combat practice. Sleeping in tents and having almost real battles. The temp was 8F last night. The coldest night in South Carolina since 1891. The following week we get ready to leave for home. I can’t wait Darling. Just 14 more days and I’ll be on my way. Margie I love you very much. I want to marry you more than you know. I’m going to be as good to you as I can and I always will. Darling please watch your-self riding the bus late at night. I don’t want anything to happen to you. Darling I’m always going to be beside you when you want me. I want you to be happy. If you are happy then I am happy. Margie I love you. Believe me.

This weekend we have to prepare for next week in the field so I guess I’ll be pretty busy until I leave this hole in the wall.

Margie I need you so very much believe me. I want to rub your like I know you like and just hold you close. Margie I don’t know how much writing I’ll be able to do but I will write every chance I get. Believe me. Oh Margie please never stop loving me. I need you darling. These next couple of weeks will fly. Please Margie I wish I could tell you the things I would like to in words. You are my life and my life belongs to you alone. Sleep tight Darling. Will write tomorrow if I can. Take good care of yourself and I will be dreaming of you as I always do. I love you Margie.

With all my love for you for ever Darling,

Chris

P.S. – You are wonderful Margie. I love you.

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November 30, 1955 – Wednesday

PVT E1 Christopher D. DeVier US 52 406 343, Co. C 506th Abn Inf Regt, 101st Abn Inf Division, Fort Jackson, S.C.

Miss Marjorie Glenn
3637 Hilmar Road
Baltimore 7, Maryland

Nov. 30, 1955
Wednesday 9:30 P.M.
I Love You

My Darling,

How are you darling? Fine I hope. I received the cup cakes today and they are wonderful. As a matter of fact I’m eating one now, chocolate. Darling only 16 more days and I’ll be on my way. I love you so very much. Darling your letters are so very wonderful. I live for mail call every day.

You say its cold in Baltimore it was 14F last night. When you lay on the ground for four hours its twice as cold. Believe me you have kept me from freezing to death. Today at noon it was 45F, quite a change. Crazy weather huh?

Margie I’m going to love you for ever. And I’m going to tell you so till I die then I tell you in a different way when we are together above.

How do you like the crazy picture? They make us smile so everybody will think we’re happy. I hope it looks a little like me. It was taken during my second week here. Oh Margie I’m so happy with you. Love is wonderful.

I’m so sorry to hear about Nancy’s breaking off with her boy. But if they are suppose to be together they will get together again. Darling what do you want for Christmas? Just think 20 more shopping days till Christmas. Margie I can’t to get home to you Darling. Sleep tight my Love, forever, and I’ll be dreaming of you. Take good care of yourself and I’ll pray for you. Sorry this is short but have to get up at 12:30. I love you for ever.

With all my love for you alone,

Chris

Dad eating chocolate? Figures. He LOVED Christmas. Or rather he loved shopping at Christmas. I think that after he married mom and they finally had the family he so desperately wanted, Christmas was a joy for him. Something I don’t think he experienced as a boy. I remember him filming us as children as we unwrapped presents and later when I was teenager and in college he would get so excited about presents he had bought for mom that he would show me and swear me to secrecy about them. Mom would get annoyed because I could usually calculate her response and she figured out rather quickly that I had known what she was getting for a while. He would usually get whatever it was beautifully giftwrapped and always put a gorgeous card with it.  The Christmases after she passed away were very difficult for him – he seemed very wide-eyed and lost, a bit like a little boy.

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Novermber 28, 1955 – Monday

PVT E1 Christopher D. DeVier US 52 406 343, Co. C 506th Abn Inf Regt, 101st Abn Inf Division, Fort Jackson, S.C.

Miss Marjorie Glenn
3637 Hilmar Road
Baltimore 7, Maryland

Nov. 28, 1955
Monday 12:00 Noon
I Love You Very Much

My Sweet Darling,

Margie I miss you so much. Love me always Darling. How are you today? Fine I hope. Today we had classes this morning, and this afternoon we get another clothing issue. Not such a bad day. Of course you never know what in store for you at night time. Darling take good care of yourself at all times. Promise me.

I want to thank you for the schedule you sent in your letters about your holidays. I think it’s wonderful. I will be home on the 17th but I have to report on the 30th. I guess I shouldn’t complain. Some boys are not getting any time off for Christmas or New Years. I’m going to talk to the Captain about the 6 month program. If I can get it I’m going to take it. O.K. Where I report on the 30th  I don’t know yet. Darling you will wait for me for my two years won’t you? If I have to stay in that long? Unless you would marry me before I finish. I would love that very much. Margie I wish I could tell you how much I hate being away from you. This army is driving me nuts. This Christmas will be the most wonderful Christmas I will have ever known.

Darling if you get the time and you would like to send me little something it would really be wonderful. I know i shouldn’t ask. I’m sorry.

Well Darling today is the 28th that means 18 more days and you and I will be together for fourteen wonderful glorious days. I so very happy with you Darling. You are my life Margie. No one will ever change me nor the army. If I lose you I will be lost Margie. Darling I guess I’ll sign off now. Take good care yourself Margie. I’m true to you forever. Please believe me. Sleep tight Darling. It hurts me so much at night time when I’m thinking about you. I want to be holding you and then your not there. Then I cry and just dream we are together. Take care darling. My love is for you for ever. Goodnight Darling.

My love for you for ever and ever,

Chris

P.S. – You’re beautiful, and wonderful

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November 27, 1955 – Sunday

PVT E1 Christopher D. DeVier US 52 406 343, Co. C 506th Abn Inf Regt, 101st Abn Inf Division, Fort Jackson, S.C.

Miss Marjorie Glenn
3637 Hilmar Road
Baltimore 7, Maryland

Nov. 27, 1955
Sunday 4:30 P.M.
I Love You Darling

My Sweet,

How are you? Fine I hope. Well Darling, only 20 more days. I hope they fly. Oh Margie I need you so very much. I depend on your strength and your goodness.

Darling I will be leaving Saturday morning of the 17th at 6:15 and should get in Baltimore around 8:00 that evening. I should be at your house by 9:00. The church service Thanksgiving was nice but it made me so homesick because of familiar hymns. May you know some of them.

They gave us the day off. I was surprised. Today in very fogy. Darling I’m so homesick for you I don’t know what to do. This place is driving me madder by the day. We will have so much to talk about and so many things to do together Darling. Please love me always. Your wonderful, and very beautiful. I look at your pictures about a hundred times a day. Everytime I write I have them in front of me. Darling have you changed your hair since I left? I love you so much.

Darling if I could only tell you in words how much I need you. I know I say it over and over but I can’t help it. Love is a wonderful thing and to me it’s everything. I wish I could tell you how much your voice meant to me when I talked to you Thursday. I was Thursday to hear you say I Love You. Well Darling I know this is short but there is no more news right now. I have to clean my equipment and my boots, get my laundry and take a shower, and then go to bed. I can hardly see straight. I hope you understand Darling. I love to write to you and I love to read your mail. Your mail is what I live for from day to day. Please Margie take good care of yourself. I’ll love you forever, and I’ll do my very best for you Darling. I’ll write tomorrow.

With all my love for you alone Margie,

Chris

Included with this letter is a church bulletin for the Thanksgiving Service on the 24th. Dad put notes in it – the solo was “Near To The Heart of God” and he wrote at the bottom  – “All Methodist Hymns. I wish I was in Boundary now instead of here.”  Boundary was the methodist church on 42nd Street a block over from his mothers home where he attended church. The church is still there although the congregation has moved. It is a school now.

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November 26, 1955 – Saturday

PVT E1 Christopher D. DeVier US 52 406 343, Co. C 506th Abn Inf Regt, 101st Abn Inf Division, Fort Jackson, S.C.

Miss Marjorie Glenn
3637 Hilmar Road
Baltimore 7, Maryland

Nov. 26, 1955
10:PM Saturday
I Love You

My Darling,

How are you today, fine I hope. Margie, only 21 more days and we be together. I love you so very much. Darling I wish that I had more time to write to you but I promise you that I use every spare moment that I have in writing to you. Margie I love you with all my heart. For ever and ever just you and I together for ever. Your letters are so wonderful. You write a beautiful letter Darling. They make me very happy.

Darling I know that the letters I send you on the weekend go slow, the reason being that the mail is not picked up until Monday morning regardless if you mail it Saturday or Sunday.We recieve mail every day except holidays and Sundays.

Well Darling we were in the Swamps again Thursday night at 1:30 and we were in them until Friday until 11:00, except for meals. This morning we were under machine gun fire. It can really give you an awful feeling hearing those bullets whisling over your head about 6 inches. Well its over with and I’m still alive. Shook but still alive. This afternoon we had classes on mines and boubie traps. I slept through them all. We haven’t been told what we do tomorrow but I imagine it will be interesting. ha ha.

Love me and always love me Margie, I’m yours for always. Pray for me not to be sent over seas darling. Maybe you would want to go with if I had to go. It would be wonderful. But lets dont think about me going overseas. I won’t. Well Darling not much more news. I hope you make the part in the show. I would like to see you in it very much. Well Darling take care of yourself and be careful at night time. Awful things can happen you know. I’ll be dreaming of you tonight and everynight. Sleep tight. I’ll write tomorrow Darling. I love you so much.

With all my love for you My Darling,

Chris

 

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November 24, 1955 – Thursday

PVT E1 Christopher D. DeVier US 52 406 343, Co. C 506th Abn Inf Regt, 101st Abn Inf Division, Fort Jackson, S.C.

Miss Marjorie Glenn
3637 Hilmar Road
Baltimore 7, Maryland

Nov. 24, 1955
Thursday 7:15 P.M.
I Love You

My Darling,

Well Honey only 22 more days and I’ll be on my way. Darling it was wonderful to talk to you today. It made me feel good all over. Your words give me the strength to buck up and take this old Army. I guess I told you just about all the news there is. Its getting a little rougher day be day. Believe me it’s not fun crawling through swamps. Tomorrow I think we have our last night problem for a while anyway. Sometime next week we get our interviews then we will get our orders the following week. Pray for me to be near you darling. I pray everyday. Darling promise me you won’t worry about where I am or what I’m doing. As long as I have you and you love me I’ll be all right. Promise me you will take good care of yourself.

Your voice  sounded so wonderful today. I could see you as I sat in the booth talking to you. You are a very beautiful girl Margie. Your letters mean so much to me. I live for mail call everyday. Darling I love you with all my heart. We are going to have a wonderful life together Darling. I know we are. I’m waiting for the day when I can come home from work in the evening and have my wife and children at my home. And my wife is going to have to be you Margie. What kind of house would you like to have?

It would be very nice to sit in front of a fire place on the floor with my Margie beside me. I would love to see you in front of a fireplace in a dark room. I can see your eyes and your face now.

Well darling take very good care of yourself. I love you very much and my love is for always and ever. Please love me forever. I’m going to do my best for you Margie. I pray for you. Sleep tight and pleasant dreams. I dream about you every night. God willing I’ll see you Saturday night, Dec. 17. I love you with all my heart.

With all my Love for you for ever and ever,

Chris

P.S. – I’m sorry this note is short Darling but I have had about 9 hours sleep in four days, so I’m going to bed. I also talked to Mother a little while ago. Sleep tight Darling.

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November 21, 1955 – Monday

PVT E1 Christopher D. DeVier US 52 406 343, Co. C 506th Abn Inf Regt, 101st Abn Inf Division, Fort Jackson, S.C.

Miss Marjorie Glenn
3637 Hilmar Road
Baltimore 7, Maryland

Nov. 21, 1955
Monday 12:00
Noon

My Darling,

I’m just starting this on my lunch hour. How are you Darling? Fine I pray. I’m waiting for mail call. I hope there’s a letter waiting. If there isn’t I don’t know what I do. I love you with all my heart and strength. We have night fire starting tonight. Pray a little for me.

Darling I won’t be home for Thanksgiving. I hope you understand. We just don’t have any time off.  I hope you get this note in time. I don’t think we are two young to really be in love as a matter of fact I’m sure of it Darling. This is a wonderful life you have given me and I hope I can make you as happy. Darling I will call Thanksgiving afternoon early if i can. I’m going to call mother early if I can. Well Darling I’ll see you on the 17 of Dec. and I’m never going to leave you. I have to go darling. This is Tuesday morning. I couldn’t finish last night. Love me and don’t ever leave me. I’m your forever and always. I pray for you. It’s won’t be long darling I love you with all my heart Margie. Take care of yourself. God speed us together.

With all my love for you Darling,

Chris

P.S. – I love you Darling.