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Flogging Dad’s WWII Letter’s to Mom

Posted By: 'Okie' | 6:58 pm — 2/21/2005 | 1 Comment See comments below:

I am humbled by the response to my blog series, Dad’s WWII Letters to Mom. Several of you have been kind enough to post links and comments on your blogs and I would like to share a few of these with my other readers.

Mark Tapscott, of Tapscott’s Copy Desk gave the series a wonderful, touching review. I read his post out loud here at the Ponderosa the other evening and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. Mark wrote:

Regardless where you grew up or where your folks served, you will be moved by Duke Baker’s endearing words for his Anna Mae. Most of the time, he is simply conveying the mundane details of daily life at a Naval hospital. Spare though his prose is, however, you hear more than a few hints of Duke’s compassion for the wounded and dying men under his care, as well as his longing for his beloved, home and peace.

Thanks, Dale, for sharing these letters with the rest of us. A lot of people you will probably never meet will be wonderfully blessed by your sharing.

The Anchoress has mentioned the series twice to her readers.

Finally, I really, really love this, and you will, too. Okie on the Lam has begun an ambitious and personally meaningful project that he’ll be adding to each week – he is posting (with wonderful pictures) his father’s letters to his mother, during WWII. Get a cup of coffee or tea, and check in. It’s almost like finding a wonderful packet of dusty old letters, and becoming intimate with strangers. A really good project and I’m glad Arther is doing it! He’ll be posting new letters each Friday. Enjoy! &

Okie on the Lam has part two of his very interesting and lovingly put-together collection of letters sent by his father to his mother while they were seperated by WWII. It’s a nice read.

We know that the Anchoress has been severely under the weather the last few days and appreciate that she took the time to come over and read part two. Thanks for all your support!

We also thank Stacy Harp of Media Soul who wrote:

The history from WWII is enough to keep my attention, but what is even better is seeing the love of a man for a woman.

Stacy and Mark were kind enough to also post the blog ad for the series in their side bars. If you do the same, please let me know and I’ll post about it. Part three coming Friday. (db)

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  • http://www.boundbygravity.com Andrew

    No need to post about me, but I’ve been enjoying the letters. I featured one letter from the first set (it fit in nicely with my unofficial “Never Forget” features), and then linked to the second set of letters.