“I
have to do the separating since you left.
I have learned to drive the tractor-at least I got five loads of hay by
myself, when we were stacking. When we
were putting hay in the barn I 'dumped it.'
Barbara Jean and I both burned our hands when the rope slipped thru
them. That was Wednesday. My hands are about well now. It didn't stop me from using my hands
though.”
--
Letter from my aunt, Barbara Brown, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Cape
Girardeau, Mo., July 10, 1943. My father's 15-year-old sister apparently
had to overcome some resistance in order to be allowed to drive the
tractor. In a letter dated the following day, my father mentioned Barbara’s efforts to
“get her way about helping outside.” On this day, July 10, U.S. and
British forces began their invasion of Sicily.
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