Letter home to parents, May 10, 1943

In the Book Letters Home: A Paratrooper's Story, this is what my Dad said about Lt. McKinley:

Lory Curtis, son of Bud Curtis HQ, 1st BN

In a letter he wrote to his mother on May 10, 1943, he asked:

Did my Company Commander send you a letter about me being in this outfit?  I heard he sends everyone’s folks one what did he have to say?
Bud 

Bud’s Company Commander, then First Lieutenant John E. McKinley, from “F” Company did send a letter to his parents telling Bud’s parents about the training and how Bud would become one of the world’s finest fighting men.  Note: This was quite a letter to send to the parents of an eighteen year old boy who was being turned into a man very quickly to fight for America’s freedom.  Colonel Walsh felt it important to have the families of these new paratroopers involved in their lives.  If family members would encourage their sons to do their duty they would be better fighting men.  Colonel Walsh ordered each company commander to write a letter home to each paratrooper’s parents.  Bud started his career with F Company and here is the letter sent to his parents by his company commander.