she writes a short letter and puts it in a shirt that is to be sent to an army camp. the shirt eventually ends up on private edgar "wolf" larsen, who has quite a reputation as a ladies' man. wolf reads the letter aloud to his bunk mate john phoneas mcpherson, then throws it away. john picks it up again and gets interested in finding the woman behind the letter. although john is not big and strong like wolf, but short and small, he decides to pursue evie by writing her back.