Letters From Far Away

Sometime last year, while poking around the Woodland farm, Peter found a box full of letters that our dad sent to Grandma and Grandpa.  He wrote them while he was away serving in the Army during the Vietnam War and with the Peace Corps a few years later.  The letters give the impression that it was more like "serving time in the Army" and "on [a very frugal] vacation with the Peace Corps".


Reading through them, they remind me of the give-and-take that comes with email correspondence.  On one hand, the letters require several days between responses (that's +1 for email if you're keeping score).  On the other hand, there's no way to grasp the mood of the writer beyond the words themselves.
There's also little things that stand out, like the Hotel Granada's letterhead on the paper.  It gives a nostalgic air to the letter, and couldn't be reproduced in an email.

The letters are available through Google Docs.  If you would, please help me transcribe them into digital text files, either using Google Docs or whatever text editor you have at home.  Then just name your file to match the PDF that's there now and upload it to the same place.  Thanks ahead of time!