Jan 14, 2015

Sun, Jan 14, 1945: a little hike

"Yesterday we took a little hike into the mountains.  This time Jim, Everett Bostrom (a boy in my section) and I explored the 'Flatirons', west of town.  Our excursion took us slightly farther than we had intended to go, so our arrival back in the city was rather late.  That meant that all of my studying has to be done today.  We had a good time, though; and nothing less than an airplane could give us as good a view of Boulder."
-- Letter from my father, Boulder, Colo., to his family, Bloomington, Kans., Sunday, January 14, 1945.  Two days earlier, on January 12, the Soviets had launched an offensive against German forces that would lead to the liberation of Warsaw and Krakow in a matter of weeks.

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