‘I Sent the Pen-and-Pencil Set and the Purple Heart on the Way’

Babe shipped some valuables home, according to this letter. And he mentions some people I never remember my mother mentioning. Now, unfortunately, there’s nobody left to ask about them. Also, this is the first letter in quite awhile that doesn’t mention being in the hospital. Was he finally out? … More ‘I Sent the Pen-and-Pencil Set and the Purple Heart on the Way’

A Tale of Two Hospitalizations: Babe’s Long Stay During WWII

Contrasting the less-than-12-hour hospital stay when my daughter had an appendectomy against a nearly two-month hospitalization Babe endured after his combat injury when he was “slightly wounded in the right fifth toe.” Times have changed, and apparently WWII helped spark some of that change. … More A Tale of Two Hospitalizations: Babe’s Long Stay During WWII