My Dearest Kate,
I guess as you are reading this letter then the worst has happened and I am... well I am dead. As you know we are told on basic training to write these letters to our loved ones should the worst happen, and we hope they never see the light of day and remain in a dusty old cabinet in Canberra. I wish more than anything you never have to read this letter and that i could be there with you.
I am so sorry, i never wanted to leave you. Not like this. I wanted to grow old with you. I don't have many regrets from my life but my biggest was leaving you that night at Watsons Bay. I wish i could have changed things and who knows where we might have been. When you were posted on to Hammersley i couldn't believe my luck that i had been given a second chance at love. We had to take the long way round i know but i don't regret one single moment of our time together
My heart is a compas it always leads me back to you. You Compleat me and i could not be happier to have called you my wife
I hope one day you can find some peace in this. Don't waste any time being sad or angry. (yes, i know what happened after you thought i had been blown up in that sub) and i don't want you feeling like that mourn and grieve then with time move on. Live your life and know i will always be by your side. I will be in the breeze that comes of the water as the ship cuts through the waves, i will be the red glow that sets the sky ablaze each sunset and i will be the brightest star in the sky on a cloudy night guiding you in to port.
As some one once said it is better to have loved and lost than never loved at all . I will be waiting in paradise for you to join me in the very distant future
All my love now, forever and always
Mike