{"id":58,"date":"2010-01-30T15:36:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T15:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/\/\/uncategorized\/58\/"},"modified":"2010-01-30T15:36:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T15:36:22","slug":"58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/58\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters &#8211; 1942 to 1945 #21"},"content":{"rendered":"Capt. T.G. Leske\n\n71st Infantry\nAPO44\nFort Lewis, Wash.\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">5-28-43 \u00a0 (Postmarked May 29 1943, 5:30pm, Tacoma, Washington. Air Mail)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Miss Jane Axtell\n538 S. Normandie\nLos Angeles, California<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">\u00a1Hola Jane!<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Here I am again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Your card shamed me into sitting myself down and giving myself a good talking to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Time out for a bull session.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Now that that is over with and I again concentrate I find that my lecture to me was unkind to I, as the real reason for not writing was that I was waiting for that real nice really sentimental love letter that ya spoke of in your last letter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m going to wait and see how ya do for I haven&#8217;t received any thing of that sort for years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Nite!<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">That guy<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Ted<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">==============================<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Note, enclosed in this envelope with the letter was the following typewritten note.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t tell if the note was from Ted or whether my mother added the note to the letter for some reason.\u00a0 On the back of the note is a sketch of a woman labeled &#8220;Alice&#8221;\u00a0in my mothers style.\u00a0 It might be a draft of the sentimental love letter mentioned in Ted&#8217;s letter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bob.hanlonbrown.com\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/letter_f.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-206\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-206 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/robertjwallace-images.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/letter_f.jpg\" alt=\"letter_f\" width=\"700\" height=\"601\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/robertjwallace-images.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/letter_f.jpg 700w, https:\/\/robertjwallace-images.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/letter_f-300x258.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 700\/601;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bob.hanlonbrown.com\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/letter_b.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-205\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-205 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/robertjwallace-images.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/letter_b.jpg\" alt=\"letter_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"830\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/robertjwallace-images.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/letter_b.jpg 700w, https:\/\/robertjwallace-images.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/letter_b-253x300.jpg 253w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 700\/830;\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capit\u00e1n TG Leske<\/p>\n<p>71.\u00ba Regimiento de Infanter\u00eda<br \/>\nAPO44<br \/>\nFort Lewis, Washington.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">5-28-43 &nbsp; (Postmarked May 29 1943, 5:30pm, Tacoma, Washington. Air Mail)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Se\u00f1orita Jane Axtell<br \/>\n538 S. Normand\u00eda<br \/>\nLos \u00c1ngeles, California<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">\u00a1Hola Jane!<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Here I am again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Your card shamed me into sitting myself down and giving myself a good talking to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Time out for a bull session.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Now that that is over with and I again concentrate I find that my lecture to me was unkind to I, as the real reason for not writing was that I was waiting for that real nice really sentimental love letter that ya spoke of in your last letter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m going to wait and see how ya do for I haven&#8217;t received any thing of that sort for years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Nite!<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">That guy<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Ted<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">==============================<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">Note, enclosed in this envelope with the letter was the following typewritten note.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t tell if the note was from Ted or whether my mother added the note to the letter for some reason.&nbsp; On the back of the note is a sketch of a woman labeled &quot;Alice&quot;&nbsp;in my mothers style.&nbsp; It might be a draft of the sentimental love letter mentioned in Ted&#8217;s letter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"601\" data-src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/letter_f.jpg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 700\/601;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"830\" data-src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/letter_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; 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