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Category: 1943 Letters

Putting in His Order for a Package of Stuff; Living High off the Natives

February 21, 2012

“Don’t let anyone, I don’t care if it is the mayor, tell you you can’t send anything that I just mentioned because fellows here have received everything I want in packages already.” … More Putting in His Order for a Package of Stuff; Living High off the Natives

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‘The Influential Politicians Drafted Only the Poorer Class of People’

February 20, 2012

The Italians can’t understand how Americans can have a washing machine in their own homes — or how everyone is in the same social class. … More ‘The Influential Politicians Drafted Only the Poorer Class of People’

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A Lovely Description of All the Fruit Trees Near Him

February 19, 2012

“All in all, this is a pretty nice place, not at all unlike the climate and environment of Mount Kisco.” … More A Lovely Description of All the Fruit Trees Near Him

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‘I Received a Couple of Birthday Cards from Bib and Rosemarie’

February 17, 2012

Plus, Babe responds to a late-breaking letter he received from his brother Vin just before this one went into the envelope. … More ‘I Received a Couple of Birthday Cards from Bib and Rosemarie’

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‘These People Make Good Macaroni Too. Just Like You, Ma’

February 15, 2012

Also, my grandparents kept chickens in their yard in Mount Kisco. Babe boasts that now, he, too had one…briefly. … More ‘These People Make Good Macaroni Too. Just Like You, Ma’

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Letters from an Everyman in WWII Frank D. "Babe" Mauro Born, Oct. 9, 1924 Died, May 4, 1945

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