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Another in a series of very short notes he dashes off to say hello to his family. He references a name, apparently, of someone he may have known back home, but it’s not a name I’m familiar with. … More ‘I Received Your Cablegram…We Saw a Couple of Good Plays Last Week’
“I received a few letters from you all today, the first in a month. That isn’t your fault, though. My mail has to be forwarded to me and that takes time.” … More A Quick Note: ‘My Pal, Wolf,’ and a Big Cache of Belated Letters
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’
Another short V-mail while still hospitalized for his combat wound. Apparently, someone spilled the beans about his wound in his former high school. And who is “the old boy”? … More ‘What Did Bib Do, Tell the Whole School I Was Wounded?’
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
Well, Happy and Safe 