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sicily ''At last I am back in the Army and it certainly feels good,'' Dad wrote on June 15. ''The hospital interlude was of course perfectly grand but you can['t] win or finish wars in there.'' Though he missed his old outfit, ''life in the new outfit is pleasant from above but the talent below leaves much to be desired in comparison with those I left-sort of slow and exasperating but we'll get it whipped into shape or know why.'' He told us to watch the newsreels because the regiment had paraded before King George VI of England.During most of Dad's hospitalization, Mom had been laid up with bronchitis. Feeling rotten and missing Dad, on June 11 she had written to ask him if he wasn't coming home because he didn't want to. On July 4 he replied, ''Darling, I am so very distressed at your remark about if I want to come home. If you only knew how very much I do want to come home but can't see any immediate opportunity until we do a bigger job.'' Concerned about Mom's health, he told her to ''take a trip. Go to G[reat] N [eck] or Pinehurst or White Sulphur or someplace and get healthy.'' He was therefore glad to hear that we were going east for the summer. A week later Dad wished that

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN