May 14, 1943

Ok, so, today is my first day in boarding school. Well… not exactly. This is actually my 5^th year. BUT! My mom sent me a letter saying if she dont get no more letters from the genral, sayin how bad I am this year, ican come home to actually go to real school. Maybe that way I can actually get some more educatin. I meen…  As of tomorrow I will be 10, and I dont know hardly any big words, or how to spell sometypes of words. This might be the toughest year of military school, yet! A hole year without any trouble at all!? That might be hard. But my motivation for me stayin out of trouble is seein my mom and actually goin to school. So officially as of today! Today is my first journal entry for my last year in military school. So, ya, ive never really rite, so I am not really good at it. Mabe when I get out ill make lots of friends and teach me how to be more normal, and I can teach them how to do fisical stuff like running, and swimming, and things.

Rite now, I dont really have to many friends, I try to, but they isolate themself from me. It might be better for me not to make friends. BUT SCHOOL! That’s all I can think about since I got that letter from my mom. I mean school can make me smarter, because I'm kinda dumb as of now, but in a year I will be more smarter.  Maby ill join the boy scouts! Ill be the best boy scout ever! I would be in charge of EVERYTHING! I dont really kno what all they do, but I feel like the 3 years hear, I would be the best at all activities. They even teach us survival tips and other things. I feel… just like my dad! If the hoe scool thing dont work I can always go to the navy like him.

O YA! Ps, if your reading this, you have found my secret journal and I'm laughing at you, because YOUR stupid butt is in this place, and not me. So ha!

~Ralph