Updates & New Discoveries!

It’s Sunday evening and the house is quiet. Cozied up on the couch, I’m looking at Larry’s handwriting on another faded envelope, stamped with a war-era ‘Torch of Enlightenment’, and an entreaty to join the Red Cross Roll Call.  It’s entirely possible that I am the first person to open and read this letter in…

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Waiting for April

Life is full of waiting, isn’t it? … And it’s almost ALWAYS hard to be patient.  (How much more so for those young & in love!)  In March of 1942, Larry & Joy were waiting eagerly until their next opportunity to see each other.  Sometime in April Larry would travel from Alabama to Kentucky, and…

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