Posted on 03/27/2023 12:30:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Most people never have the opportunity to gain insight into what their parents were like during their younger days, but two sisters in New Jersey did after discovering letters written to their Navy veteran father from his best friend during World War II.
Susan Sturm and Cindy Sommer were tasked with the responsibility of cleaning out their parents’ home following the death of their 96-year-old mother in January 2021. The women had lost their father, Al Sitarski, years prior in July 2012 at the age of 91.
While in the attic, the sisters came across a brown envelope with the words “A Very Sad Story About WWII” written on the front in Sitarski’s handwriting. Not knowing many details about their father’s four years in the Navy, they opened the envelope and discovered it was stuffed with letters from his longtime best friend, Navy Lt. Fred Fonda.
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Bwa ha.
Nice article , a very different time in our Republics history.
They both made it thru the war then Fonda dies aboard ship when it’s over…damn!
That reminded also of Colonel Blake on MASH in the episode where he went home.
A moving WWII post by central_va to accompany this thread;
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4140970/posts?page=39#39
...I challenge all who read it to NOT have goose pimples, standing arm hairs, a renewed fight and a bit of a broken heart.
Ditto that. Read straight through in its entirety. Awesome. Real heroes.
A guy I know joined the Marines with three friends. One friend was killed in action in Vietnam and then it came time for them to go home his other two buddies got to go home 2 weeks before he did.
When he got to town he went directly to his friend’s house he didn’t even go to see his mother first and found out that both of his friends had been killed in a car accident.
And then Cosmo Kramer.........
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