By overwhelming request, we've tracked down more "Wartime Letters Back Home". Thanks once again to the outstanding archives maintained by the volunteers of The Croton Historical Society. Click on the photos below to read letters from George Tice, Corporal William H. Thiele and Corporate George E. Gray. See more Wartime Letters Back Home here http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2015/02/1945-more-croton-wartime-letters-back.html
You may also have an interest in: The 70th Anniversary of Iwo Jima, courtesy of Tom Faranda's Folly http://tomfaranda.typepad.com/folly/2015/02/iconic-image-70th-anniversary-of-iwo-jima.html
What a terrible time this must have been and yet, perhaps it is just because you are looking at from a time way in the future, doesn't it seem as if people just worked together better and really understood what the idea of service to something bigger than yourself?
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