"We
saw the New Year come in at Bert's Place, the only eating house or business establishment
of any kind open at that time in Geneseo.
The people of Geneseo weren't in a very festive mood that night; for the
only resemblance to a celebration there was two honks on some one's car horn at
the stroke of twelve.
"New
Year's Night our conversation instructor, K. Sato, invited us down to his
house. The strange assortment of food on
his table was very tasty. Among the Japanese delicacies served were bamboo
sprouts and rice cakes wrapped in seaweed.
To make the meal more amusing we were given chopsticks instead of the
customary knife, fork, and spoon."
-- Letter from my father, Sidney DeVere Brown,
Boulder, Colo., age 19, to his family, Bloomington, Kans., Wednesday, January
3, 1945. This letter is about my
father's trip back from Christmas furlough with his family to the naval
language school in Boulder, Colo.
Geneseo is a small town in central Kansas, 100 miles northwest of Wichita. By January 1, Allied forces had turned back
the German advance in the Battle of the Bulge and continued advancing into
Germany.
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