Comments on: Dale’s Introduction to the Letters http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/ Duke's love letters to Anna Mae during his Naval tours of duty in WWII Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:00:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Janice Thompson Brown http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-11070 Janice Thompson Brown Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:00:06 +0000 http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/#comment-11070 Thank you for the beautiful way you have chosen to display & share your Dad's letters to your Mom. I too have some letters not all. Mom seemed to keep those with importance like Archbishop Spellman speaking through World Wide Hook up at Ripal Stadium in the Phillipines on September 2, 1945. I love the historical data in the letters & have learned a lot more than I knew. I was born in March 1945. It took weeks before my Dad knew because he was on a boat to the Phillipines. It took 42 days to go from France to the Phillipines by way of the Atlantic Ocean & through the Panama Canal. What a long way around~ I would like to put them on a website like you did but not sure how. Do you have any tips or an instruction manual OR maybe you would like to continue on your site adding others after yours as in Family Groups of Letters. Let me know I would be so interested & the cost for doing so. My Dad was Army & I have many pictures that I would share also along with patches, dog tags etc. I was thinking of giing them to a museum but my kids & grands sai no that they wanted them in the family. I will now send scanned letters to family & museums. Thanks for your beautiful Memorial to your Mom & Dad. You outdid yourself. Deepest Regards. Janice Brown Janicebrown247@verizon.net Thank you for the beautiful way you have chosen to display & share your Dad’s letters to your Mom. I too have some letters not all. Mom seemed to keep those with importance like Archbishop Spellman speaking through World Wide Hook up at Ripal Stadium in the Phillipines on September 2, 1945. I love the historical data in the letters & have learned a lot more than I knew. I was born in March 1945. It took weeks before my Dad knew because he was on a boat to the Phillipines. It took 42 days to go from France to the Phillipines by way of the Atlantic Ocean & through the Panama Canal. What a long way around~ I would like to put them on a website like you did but not sure how. Do you have any tips or an instruction manual OR maybe you would like to continue on your site adding others after yours as in Family Groups of Letters.
Let me know I would be so interested & the cost for doing so. My Dad was Army & I have many pictures that I would share also along with patches, dog tags etc. I was thinking of giing them to a museum but my kids & grands sai no that they wanted them in the family. I will now send scanned letters to family & museums.
Thanks for your beautiful Memorial to your Mom & Dad. You outdid yourself. Deepest Regards.

Janice Brown
Janicebrown247@verizon.net

]]> By: David Reich http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-10777 David Reich Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:31:54 +0000 http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/#comment-10777 You've done a marvelous job on your website. I, too, have my Dad's letters -- he wrote everyday, sometimes twice and three times -- during his service in the Army during World War II. There are about 200 in all! And it's taken eight months now to read, organize, transcribe, and begin editing his memoirs. It's a labor of love, and I appreciate what you say about the connection it gives you to your Dad before you were born. My Dad - he passed away in 2006 - never shared any of this with my sister and I. The letters were stowed away for 50 years by my Mom. I don't think she even looked at them. He was an older and maturer soldier at age 28, and was a keen observer of the scenes around him. The value, besides this amazing connection I am having with my Dad, is expression in lyrical passages his deep love for my Mom, with whom he was married already for three years, as well as his astute commentary on Army life in great detail. Besides sharing my writing project with my family, I'm not sure what I'll be doing with it as far as sharing it with others. I think there is interest in it. I may start with a website once I've completed his memoirs. At any rate, I'd be most grateful if you had any advice about starting one. David Reich Berkley, Michigan You’ve done a marvelous job on your website. I, too, have my Dad’s letters — he wrote everyday, sometimes twice and three times — during his service in the Army during World War II. There are about 200 in all! And it’s taken eight months now to read, organize, transcribe, and begin editing his memoirs. It’s a labor of love, and I appreciate what you say about the connection it gives you to your Dad before you were born. My Dad – he passed away in 2006 – never shared any of this with my sister and I. The letters were stowed away for 50 years by my Mom. I don’t think she even looked at them. He was an older and maturer soldier at age 28, and was a keen observer of the scenes around him. The value, besides this amazing connection I am having with my Dad, is expression in lyrical passages his deep love for my Mom, with whom he was married already for three years, as well as his astute commentary on Army life in great detail.

Besides sharing my writing project with my family, I’m not sure what I’ll be doing with it as far as sharing it with others. I think there is interest in it. I may start with a website once I’ve completed his memoirs. At any rate, I’d be most grateful if you had any advice about starting one.

David Reich
Berkley, Michigan

]]> By: Denise http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-8159 Denise Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:04:17 +0000 http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/#comment-8159 Thanks for posting your Dad's letters. I just found letters written to my father while he served in the Navy in WWII. They were from an old girl friend (she sent him a "Dear John" letter), my grandmother and eventually his new girlfriend, my mother. I am now trying to figure out what to do with them. Thanks for posting your Dad’s letters. I just found letters written to my father while he served in the Navy in WWII. They were from an old girl friend (she sent him a “Dear John” letter), my grandmother and eventually his new girlfriend, my mother. I am now trying to figure out what to do with them.

]]> By: Bonnie http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-6409 Bonnie Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:47:23 +0000 http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/#comment-6409 Your site is amazing!!! I was JUST given a box of letters home written by my father when he was stationed in the Pacific. My dad died when I was 17, so I am thrilled to have these treasures. In researching the best way to scan them to save them, I found your site. It's AMAZING! Do you have advice on format (jpeg?) or resolution to use (50-12800?)? I have an Epson RX600 scanner, and the choices of settings are overwhelming. I particularly like how you've scanned them in and also transcribed them. Can you give me a mini-tutorial? Bonnie tangle222@aol.com Your site is amazing!!! I was JUST given a box of letters home written by my father when he was stationed in the Pacific. My dad died when I was 17, so I am thrilled to have these treasures. In researching the best way to scan them to save them, I found your site. It’s AMAZING! Do you have advice on format (jpeg?) or resolution to use (50-12800?)? I have an Epson RX600 scanner, and the choices of settings are overwhelming. I particularly like how you’ve scanned them in and also transcribed them. Can you give me a mini-tutorial? Bonnie tangle222@aol.com

]]> By: Dawn http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-3535 Dawn Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:30:55 +0000 http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/#comment-3535 Thank you for your generous contribution. I can not wait to dig into this website. dawnee Thank you for your generous contribution. I can not wait to dig into this website. dawnee

]]> By: Barbara Rawson http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-3329 Barbara Rawson Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:22:44 +0000 http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/#comment-3329 I was just given love letters from WWII that my Mother wrote to my Father before and after their marriage. On his last days, he asked that I archive them. Mom was a war bride from Australia and Dad in the Pacific theater. He saved these letters through the war. Unfortunately when my mother came to America, she could only carry one suitcase and her letters are not here. They are real life historical documents. I was just given love letters from WWII that my Mother wrote to my Father before and after their marriage. On his last days, he asked that I archive them. Mom was a war bride from Australia and Dad in the Pacific theater. He saved these letters through the war. Unfortunately when my mother came to America, she could only carry one suitcase and her letters are not here. They are real life historical documents.

]]> By: Margaret Woda http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-2691 Margaret Woda Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:30:01 +0000 http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/#comment-2691 My WWII letter collection is a little different... it is my grandmother's collection of letters from my dad, her son, when he first went off to flight school and later from Stalagluft III. Along with those are letters from other WWII mothers - many of them desperately seeking news of their sons at a time when communication sometimes took months. I never thought of posting them online, but I have organized them in three leather-bound albums to pass on within our family. I hope to follow your posts, and perhaps someday follow your lead. My WWII letter collection is a little different… it is my grandmother’s collection of letters from my dad, her son, when he first went off to flight school and later from Stalagluft III. Along with those are letters from other WWII mothers – many of them desperately seeking news of their sons at a time when communication sometimes took months.

I never thought of posting them online, but I have organized them in three leather-bound albums to pass on within our family. I hope to follow your posts, and perhaps someday follow your lead.

]]> By: Mike Lamb http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-2661 Mike Lamb Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:59:09 +0000 http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/#comment-2661 Oh! Wonderful!! you *have* to copy these to the site www.storyofmylife.com (they just finished up a series of WWI letters -amazing). Talk to the folks there. The're super nice. They'll even copy them over after they're posted here (and you can have a lag time so the initial post is here). You must think about the future of this. What happens to WordPress or when the blog goes inactive in the future? You simply MUST preserve them forever. This is very important. I love what you're doing. Also think about the future. Our kids today are the 1st generation that will grow up entirely with the internet. They will research us for our future ancestors. I hope you will reach out to them. They will take very good care of you. ML Oh! Wonderful!! you *have* to copy these to the site http://www.storyofmylife.com (they just finished up a series of WWI letters -amazing).

Talk to the folks there. The’re super nice. They’ll even copy them over after they’re posted here (and you can have a lag time so the initial post is here). You must think about the future of this. What happens to WordPress or when the blog goes inactive in the future? You simply MUST preserve them forever. This is very important.

I love what you’re doing. Also think about the future. Our kids today are the 1st generation that will grow up entirely with the internet. They will research us for our future ancestors.

I hope you will reach out to them. They will take very good care of you.
ML

]]> By: Denice Roesler http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-2538 Denice Roesler Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:18:23 +0000 http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/#comment-2538 I too have my dad's love letters to my mom. I am in the process of putting them in order. I want to put together a book for all the family members so they can have a great memories of their love. I too have my dad’s love letters to my mom. I am in the process of putting them in order. I want to put together a book for all the family members so they can have a great memories of their love.

]]> By: Ela Purnamasari http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Ela Purnamasari Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:48:56 +0000 http://www.dadswwiiletters.com/letters/2006/02/21/dales-introduction-to-the-letters/#comment-9 I like the letters... I like the letters…

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