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Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed letters, April -August, 1942
1942-08-13 Page 5
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-5- My usual dare-devil self (I haven't been, lately. I think it's because now I don't want to take chances, I want to live. It wasn't that I didn't care about it before but I've always been rather reckless with my personal safety. Frightened as I am of water, I recall going out in Crystal Lake over my head before I knew how to swim. One night - I stayed one week at a cottage with some girls - I went in, in the dark when no one knew where I was. I could have drowned with dispatch and not been missed 'til morning. On thinking things over, however, I have the feeling that if I was on the ranch with a good cow-pony under me that I'd forget caution. My blood races as the horse gallops and he and I seem to communicate our excitement and both
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-5- My usual dare-devil self (I haven't been, lately. I think it's because now I don't want to take chances, I want to live. It wasn't that I didn't care about it before but I've always been rather reckless with my personal safety. Frightened as I am of water, I recall going out in Crystal Lake over my head before I knew how to swim. One night - I stayed one week at a cottage with some girls - I went in, in the dark when no one knew where I was. I could have drowned with dispatch and not been missed 'til morning. On thinking things over, however, I have the feeling that if I was on the ranch with a good cow-pony under me that I'd forget caution. My blood races as the horse gallops and he and I seem to communicate our excitement and both
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