Paulette: What a wonderful legacy your father has left you! Somewhere think I heard about a book or archives specializing in "Letters to the home front"?? Does anyone recall anything about that? It would be very nice if families made copies of any letters from the front to home for their local Historical or Genealogical Society. Letters and papers of the wealthy are often housed in Archives, but seldom do we find things from the regular folks. Lauraine > > From: Paulette <mamabearis@twcny.rr.com> > Date: 2009/07/02 Thu AM 08:17:29 CDT > To: can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] old letters > > My sister and I have letters that our father wrote to us during > WWII...he was drafted into the Navy. I was One year old and my sister > was 3 years old. The letters began from when he was in Boot Camp at > Samson Air Force Base and continued until he was on his way home again. > Very emotional letters for us...we never knew about them until about 2 > years ago when they showed up in a trunk that an aunt left after she died. > Paulette > When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, I find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! Please make sure there is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. > > To search the archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION > The information page is: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Lauraine, I can't tell you how emotional it was for us to read them...of course, we were too small at the time to understand, and now that we are in our mid 60's it was heart renching to read how he missed us and wanted to tuck us in at night. Which he always did after he got home. He also sent gifts to us (South Pacific Tour) and told how his ship USS Silverstein weathered a typhoon and on the Ship's Letterhead, showed us where his station was and what he did. We have copies of his discharge papers, newspaper articles of his return to our little village - and dinners given for him before he left and when he returned. Our bedtime stories were war stories...which we loved...and we always watched "Victory At Sea"... He would have been 100 years old this past march...we love him very much. Paulette