Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 102
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over six months now and they may bring me out again but I hope not. If by any chance they do order me off don't worry about me too much. Remember this tim if I go out it would be as a flight-commander and only for a comparatively short time. Also I would be flying far better machines and not doing day bombing, and above all would be a far better pilot than last time. Don't think that I have been told I am for overseas or anything of that sort because as far as I know I am fixed here. I don't want you to be worried or upset at all but simply want to tell you exactly how things stand and that there is just the remote possibility. I don't believe there is any danger of my being suddenly ordered off especially when as headquarters must know why I came back from France. But it would not be fair to tell you that there is no chance of my having to go and I simply want you to understand the position so that if I were ordered off you would at least know that I would be going only for a short time and under far better conditions than before. So dont let this dissertation worry you, my darling Mother & Father, as there is no more need to imagine that I will be sent out than there was three months ago. The only thing is that should orders come and I had to go, which I think most improbable, you would understand the circumstances. Do not think that, because I wrote of sometimes longing to be back at the real thing when I hear of the good work some of my boys are doing, I am really anxious to go back. If I had to go back I would be absolutely miserable at the thought of your anxiety and the