Love letter Whit to Carolyn

Taken at a dance when they were 
in college at the University of Missouri.

 
Jan 66

What would you say

When you hear?

We’ve been apart so long.

Duty is the strongest word.

Do you love me enough to say

“Do your duty as you see it.”

I think so.

I’m about to go again.

Into another, let it be the last.

This will be the last.

Tho’ it may seem overlong

Then I’ll be home.

Remember - when in school?

Remote as that time may be.

Reveries of time gone by. 

I remember the phrases

I look at our picture.

It reminds me of --

‘I could not love thee half so much, 

Loved I not honor more.”

Honor and love. 

These two things have made me.

The Honor of my country

The Love I hold for you.

We have not chosen the easy path - you and I.

Wealth and comfort have been cast aside.

Wonder and continuing wonder for me.

The words “I love you” seem too simple

Though what else need be said.

The “I love you” is it

This letter was written on his return from Vietnam. He left us in Missouri to finish school and moved to Virginia alone for his next assignment. We followed as soon as school was out. The quote is from a poem by Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta, Going to War