Babe refers to a cousin, whom I got to know when I was a youngster: my first cousin once-removed, Gevena LePre. … More About Babe’s Cousin Gevena: ‘Ma, That Kid Has Brains’
The amount of detail in this letter might make it one of my favorites from Babe. … More A Detailed Six-Page Letter Describing a Family and Other Italians
He’s writing to my mother, who is 3 years old at this time–and may already not remember Babe very much. … More A Letter Addressed Directly to His Baby Sister for the First Time
“All we do here all day long is building fires to dry the mud off of our feet. The reason it takes all day to dry our feet is because we have to plow through the stuff continually to get enough wood to keep the fire going.” … More ‘I’ll Bet Italy Is a Nice Place When It Doesn’t Rain’
“United States Army says that river bed is no longer a river bed, but a road, so now it is a road. I get quite a laugh out of that every time I think of it.” … More His Fellow Radio Operator, a Package from Home and the Silly Army
