A Letter to Grandma during World War II
\nby Barry Bauer
\nI borrowed three scrapbooks from friends and looked through them but they were so fragile I didn’t dare scan anything or take them apart. A letter fell out of one of them and I thought it must mean I should post it.
\nMay 18, 1943
\nCamp Roberts
\nCalifornia
\nDear Grandma,
\nHow is everybody at home and everything? I hope everybody is ok because I am so far. Thanks for the cookies, they’re good. You know I didn’t have to guess who sent them for I knew they were your cookies. And boy were they good.
\nWell, how is Marie? I hope she is ok. You know I hope it is a boy for you know what a soldier I can make out of him.
\nI got all your letters.
\nDon’t write anymore for I am going to be shipped out and it may be overseas for I am not sure but that is what I think but again I may be sent closer to home but I don’t think so.
\nI don’t get much time to write for they are pushing us through basic training so fast you don’t know what you are doing. Oh yes, how is Grandpa? I hope he can get your garden in for you. I think he can get it in for you if he tries it, don’t you?
\nWell, when I get to where I am going I will write you first and nobody else but you.
\nI hope I get to come home before I do go across for I would like to see everybody just once more.
\nTell Keith he can have my girl.
\nWell, got to close now, for I have to go
\nWith love,
\nP.V.T Deek
\nPvt. Deek did go overseas and was a paratrooper and was shot down over Italy during the War. He was hospitalized and received two Purple Hearts.
\nPvt. Deek was Michael Wieczorek, Deek was his nickname. He was a cousin to Keith Barrett to whom he left the girlfriend but actually married the girl after the War.
\nThanks to Keith and Nancy Barrett for letting me borrow these scrapbooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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