Dear Mom,
There haven’t been any developments that I know of yet. We’re all pretty well in the dark as to what’s going on. I do know that we and a carrier and a few destroyers are all that’s left of the task force that was here. Maybe we’ll be the ones to tow the Pueblo out. I don’t know.
A couple of Russian bombers flew over today, and that Russian destroyer is still hanging around; but there haven’t been any encroachments on anyone’s part.
Those long canisters I was carrying in the picture
are empty 5” powder cans. I’ve enclosed a couple of pictures and a negative. I finally bought myself a camera. It’s a Ricoh and amounts to a Japanese instamatic. Takes excellent pictures. One of the pictures is of a group of us at the EM club in Yokosuka, having dinner.
From left to right: Steve Irving, Jerry Lefler, the one you can’t see Henry
Chapa, Pete Donaldson, David Hathcock, Roger Epard, and Norman Sice. Jerry,
David, Roger and Norman (Chuck) are my closest buddies. Dave you know about.
Jerry and Roger are from Illinois, and Chuck is an Indian from New Mexico. Henry
is Mexican.That was our first night over in Japan. We ate New York steaks for $2.00.
Don’t worry!!