"Stanley
went out in the pasture and announced on his return that his heifer has a calf,
so you can imagine the smile on his face....
"I
take it that navy life is somewhat different where you are now than it was
going to school, but you can take it and live through it if the other fellow
can."
--Letter
from my grandfather, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Camp Sampson, N.Y.,
Sunday, April 30, 1944. My grandfather
doesn’t seem to have much sympathy for my father feeling bad about being sent
to boot camp. My grandfather had served
in the Army in World War I and been sent to France. I don’t believe he saw any real action, but
he was close enough to hear the guns fall silent when the armistice went into
effect, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918.
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