Word: moms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Mom." In Chicago, he lived at a "magnificent hotel" (the Y.M.C.A.), and wrote numerous letters to his mother. He was impressed by the fact that Chicago had 1,156,000 telephones, 5,100 lawyers, 3,400 dentists, 9,200 physicians. At his first life class at the Institute, he blushed furiously: the naked model was a girl. "Man, does she have a shape!" he wrote to his mother...
...Mom, Steve, Jim and myself will all go down to meet him at the pier. The ship will be late. Many people will be waiting. When it arrives we shall find my father. I would start asking so many questions. Pop would not answer all of them. He would want to forget the war now that he was home. By the time we got home it would be lunch time. He would then eat his first home cook meal in one and a half years. I am sure we shall have a very fancy lunch. After about an hour eating...
...Mom says, 'Let's go out to dinner and be stylish about...
...armor plate, then shot up one of my gas tanks. I didn't think we had a chance so I went on in and got up close to the Jap carrier before I let the torpedo go. I think I got a hit. Mostly I was saying, 'Mom, I'm afraid you'll never get that picture...
Honors and Fogies. Out of 40 outmoded TBDs which had taken off from U.S. carriers that day, only four came back. Smitty's battered bomber was one of them. Mom got her picture. Smitty got 1) a commission as ensign; 2) a Navy Cross and a citation which read in part: "His extreme disregard of personal safety contributed materially to the success of our forces...