Private J. D. Caves: The Long Journey Home
13 June 1944 Stalag VIIIB, Teschen, Germany
13 June 1944 Stalag VIIIB, Teschen, Germany
My Dear Jean,
Writing is increasingly difficult for me darling girl. I'm still in the same place of which I can tell you nothing. But whatever happens always know that I love you and your happiness and well being is everything to me. One has plenty of time to think and form philosophies and feel infinitely wise but I doubt if we'd have the determination to stick to ideals or even the right now. We've been drifting too long, just pushed here and there, curbing our own
page 107inclinations so much that many independent spirits got broken, yet liberty may make us too intolerant of restraint. However it will all come out in the wash.