(Hand written)

1405 Lee Street
McKinney, Texas
March 6, 1945

Dear Mr and Mrs Sattler,

My belated thanks for your most kind Christmas Card and very sincere though I?ve waited so long to tell you.

Time hangs on my hands and I am so grieved I don't have the desire to be anything. I am always just glad when another day has passed; another day closer to the day when I can be with my precious son.

We shall all ways feel so deeply grateful to you people for going to our son in that horrible hour. I would have given my life gladly just to have been with him in his last few hours there after the plane crashed.

We received the tag that you sent for Lt. Porter's parents and we took it to them the following day. They were very appreciative of it. How I wish one could have been found of Pat's ??. If you should ever find any little trace of anything or any pictures of the crash, we would like so much to have them for our scrap-book in our making.

The government is so lax in giving information on the deaths. We still plan to come up there to the spot where our son went down. I fee like I might get a little comfort from it.

Pat was our only son. We have a daughter two years younger than Pat Jr. She is all we have left to live for. She is a fine, sweet girl, but I'm am so lonely as she is off in college, and I spend some long lonesome hours here until my husband comes home.

The shock of his horrible tragedy has been hard to take, and if it were not for our faith we could not go on. Pat Jr. was so sweet and fine, always telling us not to worry about him, and we are trying to be the kind of Mother and Dad he would have us to be.

You remember we told you that Pat Jr. had been married only eleven days. His little wife is going back to college and she?s trying hard to carry on. They were high school sweethearts and had been for five years. We love her and we are doing everything we can to help her across the rough places.

I have been so anxious to ask you of the boys were badly mangled. I wondered if you recognized Pat Jr. from the picture I've sent you or were they all badly burned. They asked us not to open the casket, but I could relax if I just know a little, if though it is bad. Were there arms torn off, or were their feet or legs burned off.

Please write and describe the boys to me, for you will never know what it means to me, the uncertainty of it all keeps me in a mental strain, and as bad as it was, I want to know all about it, if you will please take to the time to write to me.

If you can take some Kodak pictures of the places where the plane crashed and where the boys were, I'll gladly pay for them. I pray that God will spare you and other parents of our suffering and sorrow and that he will bless you for being so kind to us and to our darling son.

Hoping to hear from you soon,

Sincerely,

Mrs Pat N Roberts