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‘I Got My Purple Heart Today’

June 25, 2014

We are five paragraphs into this letter before Babe bothers to mention receiving his medal. First, food and a pen-and-pencil set were more pressing issues. … More ‘I Got My Purple Heart Today’

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‘I Have Been Slightly Wounded in the Right Fifth Toe’

June 24, 2014

Babe hurried out this quick letter in hopes that the news would reach his parents this way before the War Department telegram got there. … More ‘I Have Been Slightly Wounded in the Right Fifth Toe’

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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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  • WWII Navy vet dies with no family. Public needed to attend his funeral - The Patriot Ledger
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