Just a note to any of you that read my blog, I've not posted any thing new since April. My daughter got married in June and to say the least, the whole family was very busy.
I've found a couple of more letters that Emil wrote to Becky in 1945 and will be posting these soon. I'm still of course, so interested in this couple, Emil and Becky and especially because their courtship was in the 40's and he served in the Army Air Corps during WW II. My husband and I are watching on the History Channel, WW II in color.
Must get back to work (yikes). Later.
--Nancy
I read all these letters with the greatest interest. What I found most interesting was trying to imagine the feelings that stood behind all the narrating of events that Becky quite naturally did in her letters. I recall very well how there was something about letters (as opposed to the email of today) that made a person tend to present "just the facts". Becky, luckily, doesn't obey that guidance very often; so we get to see lots of signs of how very much she loves Emil.
ReplyDeleteThe strongest impression I'm left with so far is that the "realest" thing in the lives of those two was their emotional connection. The facts of things that happened to happen to them seem secondary to me, and may have seemed secondary to them as well.