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To: Guenevere

When I was in Korea in ‘52 several guys got “Dear John” letters from their wives. It completely devastated them. One I knew personally had a total change in personality. One of them in another company kept volunteering for combat patrols. There was a saying in those days, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder .... for somebody else.”


41 posted on 01/28/2016 7:05:02 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: elpadre
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder .... for somebody else.”

Brutal. Some soldiers sacrifice even more than their blood and lives.

44 posted on 01/28/2016 7:39:25 PM PST by Theophilus (The GOPe are dealers. The Marxist Democrats are duelists.)
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To: elpadre

Thanks for your service in ‘52. I was only 10 then and we kids were putting together boxes containing toiletries and other items to send to you guys.


47 posted on 01/29/2016 1:33:43 AM PST by octex
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