Babu writes (prepare to chuckle, if you are anything like me): June 11, 1941, Had a letter and some pictures from Jakey. I told myself to keep quiet about any plans to go South because they may not formulate, but I still talk. Why do I have such a garrulous tongue? Went to choir rehearsal…
Tag: Planes
Those spins, though!
I couldn’t believe what I was writing two posts ago. Here I was, showing you this amazing letter where Jake describes how to do tricks in a airplane in minute detail and I’m talking about some lame, vague fortune telling. I’m just kidding, I am excited about it all and I feel no guilt! But…
Convicts in the Barracks, May 10, 1941
May 10, 1941, Saw Ernie off on the train and felt lonesome. Came home and started cleaning my drawers. Jake sent me another letter and some pictures. He looks so thin and his hair is clipped short. Edmund, Johnny Lech, and Eddie came up early and left soon. J.L. came back about 8 and we…
Retro Wednesday: The Springfield Airport
Leave our home and head to the top of Bonneville. Take a left and go down Fairview which shifts onto Abbey Memorial. Pass the cemetery and Szot Park and come to the lights. Take a right then a quick left, unless you want some Papa John’s. You are in what my husband and I and…
Poor Poland
As I read her 1940 and even, of course, her 1939 passages I look for signs of war because I want her version of this story I already know. Her opinions, emotions, when, how, and how often the topic arrises in her pages tells me of The American Experience at this time. What is more…
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