"Ruby and Homer got word Jack has landed safely in North Africa. He didn't write much and what he did write was partly cut out....
"All of us went to town yesterday to do our Christmas shopping. The stores are rather empty looking and everything a person looks at seems rather cheap except when you price it, then you almost fall over."
--Letter from my grandmother, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Cape Girardeau, Mo., Sunday, December 12, 1943. Jack Seal was one of my father's best friends from childhood. He was the only child of Homer and Ruby, who ran the community store. By this point in the war, the Allies had control of North Africa and it was a staging point for the invasion of Italy.
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