"I
finally got here... Washington is a fabulous city. All of the places I've read about and which
have appeared in geography and history textbook pictures can now actually be
seen. Last night as my taxi pulled out
of Union Station I caught my first glance of the capitol building with its
peacetime halo of light. This impressive
sight seemed very familiar -- as if it were a place I had known long ago....
"Cmdr.
Steele seemed pleased when Bill McKeon and I asked for overseas duty; but he
wasn't overly optimistic about the possibilities Six months ago there was a
crying need for Japan bound language men - now things over the Pacific are
being wound up and Gen. McArthur's army men are handling the situation in
Japan."
--Letter
from my father, Washington, D.C., to his family, Bloomington, Kans., Thursday,
March 7, 1946.
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