Paulette: Obviously you were very lucky to have such a loving and caring father. My Dad was the same and died in 2007. Still miss him very much, but he left such great memories. Am sure there was a site that was gathering letters from the "men at war" but not sure if it was U.S. or Canadian. I do have a photo of my Dad's youngest brother in uniform - he is before a military truck and he wrote some comments on the back. He was in the Europe theatre and married a girl from Aberdeen. She came to Canada as a war bride and they had a small child born in Scotland. He tells me how shocked his Mom was when they got off the boat in Halifax - the greeters played "Here Comes the Bride" as they landed and many of them had married in Europe and had children. Back then being a bride with a small child was not quite proper and she considered herself an "old married woman". Recall my family sending parcels overseas. They were boxed and then sewn in flour sacking. Mom told me if the ship carrying them sunk, the packages would float and the sacking made it easier to nab with a grappling hook. No idea if that is true? Cigarettes (in flat tins, chocolate, fruit cake, cookies and socks were the main items sent. Food and luxury goods were highly rationed in the U.K. and my Aunt told me how the whole family gave up their weekly egg (yes l egg) so my cousin could have one 4 or 5 times a week. Did the U.S. have rationing during WW2 like we did in Canada? Lauraine > > From: Paulette <mamabearis@twcny.rr.com> > Date: 2009/07/02 Thu PM 05:10:25 CDT > To: can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] old letters > > 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 > > > 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 >