"We
listened to Roosevelt Sat. night and as Dewey just said his (Roosevelt's)
speech consisted of mud-slinging and wise-cracks. Well it won't be long now
until we'll know whether we'll have Dewey or another four years with Roosevelt.
"Warren
B. was here last summer during the Democratic Convention. We were talking about the certainty of
Roosevelt being nominated. Warren said,
'Yes and if he is nominated I suppose he will be re-elected. I just look for that old duffer to stay in
there until he kicks the bucket.'...
"P.S.
Jack Seal's mess segeant came back to the U.S. on furlough and Jack sent an
uncensored letter to his folks by the sergeant. They found out the details how
he was wounded. The piece or shoulder
bar off the German's uniform was the one who shot Jack. The German operated a machine gun. Jack's squad officer shot the German and got
the shoulder board for Jack. Jack said
he was wounded 20 hrs. before he got to a hospital. He dragged himself over three hundred
yards."
--
Letter from my grandmother, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Notre Dame, Ind.,
September 24, 1944. My father's friend,
Jack Seal, had been wounded in Anzio Beach, Italy. Warren is my father's cousin.
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