Grandfather Soldier

Memorial Day seems like a good time to share this photo of my Grandfather Lee. I only met him once. I was very young, but I do kind of remember him. He and my Grandmother were divorced when my mother was about 2. He then moved to Missouri and raised another family there.

He served in World War II and was captured and had to spend time in a POW camp.

He used to call on Christmas Eve and I would talk to him then. He seemed like a great guy.

Homefront Christmas

This image above is from a homemade Christmas card. It is a photograpah printed on really nice toothy thick paper. It is them folded and then folded again. When you open it it has this inside:



A funny Christmas card remarking on the weird world of rationing that people had to go through during World War II. It is one of my favorite finds.



A Christmas family portrait with the soldier brother included in the corner.

this ones a charmer

On the back of this very small photo:

Norma and I again. -But we're through now. Thank god. Imagine me married to that. Ugh!!!

March 1943

Love, Jim

I love you always my darling.

Taken while on leave
Jan, 2, 1957
night I left