Tagged With: Wartime Albany
Her Baby Sister Gets More Attention
July 22 and 24, 1945. Stanley is still home in Albany with “a little more than another week” on his 30 day R&R before it will be time to “go back to the same old grind.” He expects that when he gets back he “will have a lot of work” and “a lot of things to … Continue reading
Judith Anne is Improving
July 20 and 21, 1945. Stanley writes two letters, which he describes as “more jabbering and gossip rather than a letter,” to Dad from Albany. I’ll spare you the jabbering and gossip and get to the meat of the letters. It’s been a few days since Stanley has been able to write “between taking care … Continue reading
A Baby Sister
The last few days have been kind of busy for me. First off, I would like to welcome the new subscribers to the blog who have found this project as a result of the column that Chris Churchill wrote in the Albany Times Union this past week. I hope that you have had a chance … Continue reading
I Will Be Godfather
July 8 and 10, 1945. Two more letters from Stanley while he is home on 30 day R&R. On the eighth he is at the house typing a letter while Anna has been taken to the hospital at “about 4 in the morning”. As he is writing the letter there is no word yet on … Continue reading
The City Sizzles
June 16, 1945: A letter from Anna to Dad which she included with a card that she sent him for his birthday. Anna notes that the letter is “from the three of us yet but who knows by the time you get this letter a new fellow will have made his debut into this world. … Continue reading
Hopes of Seeing Stanley Soon
June 13 and 14: A V-Mail and a regular letter from Anna. As with the letters that were written close to each other, for the purposes of narration and storytelling I will treat them as one. Anna writes the V-Mail “as a go-in-between before you get the regular Bible which I write. This may be … Continue reading
Out of a Clear Sky
May 23, 1945. There are two documents from Anna to Dad; one a V-mail and another three page typewritten letter. In the V-Mail she confirms receiving the first two V-mails that Dad sent since “he has landed on dry land.” She notes that “We are all very glad that you got there safely Anthony and … Continue reading
Nothing Like the Real Thing
May 15, 1945. Anna writes to her brothers, once again apologizing that it’s been some time since her last letter and stating that “Getting letters from me nowadays is like waiting for a good Sunday dinner. I am doing my best and I can’t guarantee how things will be after the new baby comes. Probably … Continue reading
Get Out of the Camp
April 20, 1945. After not writing for a while, Anna has some pent up news. She writes a four page single spaced typewritten letter to her brothers. She acknowledges, “It is three weeks since I have written to you last. …between the house and the baby and ahem the condition the I am in now … Continue reading
Khaki is Suitable for any Season
March 1945 sees two letters to Dad from friends back home in Albany; one from Isabel Pawluc, the Secretary of St. Cecelia’s Choir, dated March 20 and another from Stanislaus Kosniski, the director of the choir dated March 30. The letters cover much of the same topics and can almost be read as one letter. … Continue reading