Seventy Years Ago: Tue, Jul 21, 1942: quiet and lonesome

Jul 21, 2012

Tue, Jul 21, 1942: quiet and lonesome

“Woodrow came after Carol & Philip Sun. evening. It seems rather quiet and lonesome since they left. Up until he came both the children said they were going to stay here but after he came they decided to go home.”

-- Letter from my grandmother, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Salina, Kans., Tuesday, July 21, 1942. Woodrow was my grandmother’s brother. His young children (ages 2½ and 4) had been staying with my grandparents, while he and his wife were separated.

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I have about a thousand of my parents' college letters, Navy letters, and love letters from the 1940's. These include letters my father wrote and received when he was at Southwestern College, Winfield, Kans. (1941-43, 1946-47), and when he was in the U.S. Navy serving stateside primarily learning Japanese (1943-46), letters my mother sent and received on a church trip in the summer of 1946, and especially letters my mother and father exchanged when they were engaged to marry but living in separate towns in Kansas (June 1947-January 1948). Many of the letters are from my father's family at their farm in Bloomington, Kans. I am reading these letters exactly seventy years after they were written and posting interesting quotes from them once a week or so.

Seventy Years Ago

Jul 21, 2012

Tue, Jul 21, 1942: quiet and lonesome

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