"Dear Mother & All" Letter
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Title
"Dear Mother & All" Letter
Subject
Hines, Joseph M. (1923-1969)
Toms Brook (Va)
World War (1939-1945)
Description
V-Mail letter sent from Joseph M. Hines, USMC, to his mother Mary Hines and family in Toms Brook Virginia. The letter was sent care of the fleet post office in San Francisco California.
Creator
Joseph M. Hines
Source
Folder 1.7: Letters from Joseph Martin Hines USMC to Duval Hines and Mary Hines, 1944, Joseph Hines Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
May 10, 1944
Contributor
Susan Hines
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
Language
English
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Text
Letter:
Dear Mother & All,
Well everything is ok with me and I hope they are the same at home. I saw Charlie Grabil[?] from Strasburg on liberty and I would like you to write his ma and tell her I saw him. I’ll give you her address, Mrs. Joe Riddleberger Strasburg Va. Things just go along the same here and there is nothing to write about. You said you worried when you didn’t hear from me. Well you know you can’t expect regular correspondence when I’m over here because we are supposed to either be training or fighting so less letters. Our show was quite a success and we had a dance in our honor the other nite. We had a lot of fun. Well I have the guard from 12 till four so I’ll sign off and get some sleep.
Love to all,
Joe
Dear Mother & All,
Well everything is ok with me and I hope they are the same at home. I saw Charlie Grabil[?] from Strasburg on liberty and I would like you to write his ma and tell her I saw him. I’ll give you her address, Mrs. Joe Riddleberger Strasburg Va. Things just go along the same here and there is nothing to write about. You said you worried when you didn’t hear from me. Well you know you can’t expect regular correspondence when I’m over here because we are supposed to either be training or fighting so less letters. Our show was quite a success and we had a dance in our honor the other nite. We had a lot of fun. Well I have the guard from 12 till four so I’ll sign off and get some sleep.
Love to all,
Joe
Original Format
V-Mail envelope and letter
Collection
Citation
Joseph M. Hines
, “"Dear Mother & All" Letter,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed April 28, 2024, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/11636.
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