(It is with a bit of melancholy that I post this letter, as it is the last letter I have that Dad wrote home to his sister Geraldine. Since this is Memorial Day Weekend, it seems appropriate to post this final Letter from a Foxhole.)
Dear Sis:
Just a few lines to let you know I am still O.K. and to send these two hankeys. I have one more I will send later. I am expecting to leave here in the next 2 or 3 days. So you probably won't hear from me anymore until we have moved. I am also enclosing some Check money.
That is all for this time.
All my love
"Bert"
I don't know where Dad went after this letter home, but I know that he departed Europe on January 1, 1946, and arrived in the United States on January 8, 1946. He was Honorably Discharged from the Service on January 13, 1946, at Camp Atterbury, Indiana.
Later in 1946, he met Helen Jean Fields at a dance in Loogootee, Indiana, and they married on March 10, 1947.
Seventeen months later, on August 2, 1948, I was born, their one and only child.
Although I have no more letters to post in this blog, if I find additional items that are related to my Dad's journey during WW2, I may create new posts over time.
Thanks for following along.
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