tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post4524503410372953196..comments2024-03-26T12:01:39.690-07:00Comments on A Family Tapestry: Choosing From Many LettersJacqi Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471698670217119444noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post-1107206614889918692013-09-09T16:58:10.347-07:002013-09-09T16:58:10.347-07:00My mom's sister married a WWII solider and I l...My mom's sister married a WWII solider and I loved hearing their love story from point of view. She was a teacher so you can only imagine how she told the story in detail. One Thanksgiving she kept us all in total silence as she related their courtship and marriage. He was wounded and sent to a Army hospital in West Virginia to recover. She was a Texas gal and living at home still. When he proposed she rushed to his bedside and they were married at the Army hospital. She told me how they wrote each other, she especially every day. My mom confirmed her older sister would write to her love every day. Sadly her letters to him were lost when his foot locker was lost after he was wounded. But, she saved his letters to her. I told her I wanted the letters some day. She would giggle and often said "I don't know if I want anyone to read them." When she passed I took passion of the letters, but had this nagging reminder of what she had said, "I don't know if I want anyone to read them." So, I put them away and haven't opened them as yet. Before my mom passed she encouraged me to read them, being very logical saying, "I'm sure there is not anything in them that would be, (in my mom's words) that juicy"......I laugh at how modern my mom could be at times, and how she changed with the times. But, I still don't know if I want to read them and intrude into their private lives. She saved them yes, and I know for a fact if I had not said she wanted me to have them another member of our family who is into genealogy and was there to get every other piece of genealogical data would have gotten them. In fact she had them until I told her that our aunt had promised them to me. So, I will continue to leave them unopened in the box my aunt stored them in, safely stored away in my closet. I think of them sometimes but resist the temptation to read them. truetexashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07060173112968742917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post-55509947297104618032012-03-29T13:33:42.627-07:002012-03-29T13:33:42.627-07:00Interesting:) I think you are correct in just let...Interesting:) I think you are correct in just letting it all play out by itself. See where it leads:)Far Side of Fiftyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995757632158408442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post-16286864331018512862012-03-26T18:06:45.729-07:002012-03-26T18:06:45.729-07:00Charming. Clearly they knew one another well. I...Charming. Clearly they knew one another well. I'm curious if he was her age, or (my guess) older and filling an avuncular role.Susan Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02009218875010743399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post-33723575246872331332012-03-26T09:07:22.457-07:002012-03-26T09:07:22.457-07:00Oh my, such a "saucy" letter!! The Iris...Oh my, such a "saucy" letter!! The Irish are so glib and such smooth talkers!Intense Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08441598926026727682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post-6648626666346132212012-03-25T21:12:24.040-07:002012-03-25T21:12:24.040-07:00Colleen, I didn't have much passed down from m...Colleen, I didn't have much passed down from my own family, either, and was quite jealous of those who had such a stash. As I've learned from my husband's grandmother, it takes a special person to resolve to hold on to things. Maybe those are the ones with the foresight...<br /><br />You have a good point about contemporary communication. Sometimes I try to print out significant e-mail messages because of that transient nature of electronic material. Every time I think of those fleeting emails, I remember the genealogy books I've read, filled with long quotes from long-ago letters...and sigh.Jacqi Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03471698670217119444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post-31249185839962382912012-03-25T13:15:02.454-07:002012-03-25T13:15:02.454-07:00I love old letters. Unfortunately, none were passe...I love old letters. Unfortunately, none were passed down from my grandparents or their parents -- whatever they might have saved was tossed away by my aunts and uncles. <br /><br />Isn't it odd to think that our own descendants won't have nearly the same opportunity to stumble upon our old correspondences, since so much of contemporary communication happens electronically now? <br /><br />-- Colleen @ <a href="http://www.cjroots.com" rel="nofollow">Colleen & Jeff's Roots</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17201192735038020976noreply@blogger.com