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Two Weeks of Heaven

Posted by Nancy Lou Henderson in Letters After R&R | 6 comments

Standing in our living room, holding the phone to my ear, then hearing Frank’s voice saying he loved me, was surreal. For the first time in six months, I was actually talking to Frank, and it felt like it was all a dream. How had he called me? Where was he? It took only seconds before Frank answered all of my questions with his next words, “Nancy, I am in California, and I am fixing to get on a flight to Houston. Wanna come and pick me up at the Houston airport?” I was fighting back the tears, holding back squealing loudly, and smiling from ear to ear all at one time,...

Back to Missing Him

Posted by Nancy Lou Henderson in Letters After R&R | 2 comments

Our two weeks together had come to an end and Frank had returned to Vietnam. There is really no way to explain the feeling of having had Frank home for two weeks, having to tell him goodbye again, then knowing it would be six months before seeing him, talking to him, and holding him in my arms again. The best words I have to explain this feeling would be, “Feeling like your heart had been torn in half”. Our love for each other had grown stronger with every day we were apart the first six months and we knew that we were connected in more than letters. Our hearts and souls had...

Where Are His Letters?

Posted by Nancy Lou Henderson in Letters After R&R | 2 comments

It was hard to keep my mind on my work after Frank left to go back to Vietnam but I knew each day that passed was one less day he had left in Vietnam and the Army. We had now gone past the halfway mark in Frank’s days left in Vietnam which was the main thing on our minds. Frank was right when he said that it would be hard for him to come home then leave again to go back to Vietnam. Our communication through letters was all that we had and when that communication was disrupted, we would both get very upset. I have responded to the following letters with what I recall that I wrote to...

Padlock and Key

Posted by Nancy Lou Henderson in Letters After R&R | 12 comments

Letters between Frank and I were finally arriving but at a much slower pace. Some of our letters were taking over ten days to reach us and out of order. This made it hard for us to communicate but we were both trying to remain calm until we figure it all out. The greatest thing for me was knowing that Frank was alright, even if he was a little upset with me for writing every day and asking him why he was not writing. Actually, he affirmed to me that his friends would write to me if he was hurt. Frank’s buddies all knew how much we loved each other. Frank was thinking deeply in his...

Disposition Form Letter

Posted by Nancy Lou Henderson in Letters After R&R | 4 comments

I was very worried about Frank and knew his last letter to me was so out of character for him. Frank seemed to have lost all of his inward fight to depression. I prayed that God would touch Frank with His loving hands, pull him out of the depths of depression and mend his body. The next letter Frank typed on a Disposition Form. It shows his resilience and God’s hand in answering my prayers. I will try to put it in here as much like the original as I can but I do not know how to do form letters on the website. This letter was typed so I will not italicize it. DISPOSITION FORM...