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Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed letters, January-May, 1943
1943-04-17 Page 1
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U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES ELLINGTON FIELD, TEXAS Saturday 17 April 1943 My dearest, I just got your letter and having a few minutes this noon decided to use them to good advantage - by writing to you. How sad about Elizabeth. To leave her children so soon... One can hope the doctor's are wrong, as they sometimes are; but one must order the future as best one may. It is wonderful of your mother to take them home....The thought instantly came to me "Wish we could take them!" You and I, I mean. I wish we were in a position to say that we could. There's this much though - we will be; one of these days we'll be able to act as a sort of back-log to relieve your mother of strain of having two children there all the time. As I recall Elizabeth has
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U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES ELLINGTON FIELD, TEXAS Saturday 17 April 1943 My dearest, I just got your letter and having a few minutes this noon decided to use them to good advantage - by writing to you. How sad about Elizabeth. To leave her children so soon... One can hope the doctor's are wrong, as they sometimes are; but one must order the future as best one may. It is wonderful of your mother to take them home....The thought instantly came to me "Wish we could take them!" You and I, I mean. I wish we were in a position to say that we could. There's this much though - we will be; one of these days we'll be able to act as a sort of back-log to relieve your mother of strain of having two children there all the time. As I recall Elizabeth has
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