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Yet, I am in the army - the Army Air Force, to be exact.

Two years ago, I was flunking Spanish & Econ at school because I had least interest in those subjects & was indefinitely more interested in going to war: Today, I am a 2nd Lt., a Co. pilot on a B-29 Super Fortess air plane, & about two months from achieving that goal for which I have been working for so long a time: an overseas assignment.

It is plain to read in your letter that Stanford have neither relaxed its pace nor its standards of war work. This I am pleased to read.

Also I read here a passage on Stanford's program for veterans, & this, too, pleases me for it is my ambition to return to the Farm soon, a[as] released, & take up from where I left off back in 1943. I do hope my Spanish & Econ improve, however.

It is my intention to return to Stanford when I am discharged from the service. While my pre-war majors were biological sciences, my training for the past couple of years has been along another path: aeronautics; practical, theoretical, & my ideas. The work has been & is fascinating, & it will be my desire, when I return to school, to continue this training so that I might be better qualified for a commercial job in the future.

I have discovered that mathematics & writing, too, have become a part of me &