Introduction

I have about a thousand letters my Dad wrote and received when he was at Southwestern College, Winfield, Kans. (1941-43, 1946-47), when he was in the U.S. Navy serving stateside (1943-46), and especially when he and my mother were engaged to marry but living in separate towns in Kansas (June 1947-January 1948). I am reading these letters exactly seventy years after they were written and posting interesting quotes from them once a week or so.