Hello Readers!
When I started typing these letters written by my grandfather "Pablo," I thought the correspondence from 1944 was already completed. As I was going through the boxes of letters, I came across all of the 1944 letters from when my grandfather first went into the Navy, starting in June 1944. We're going to go back in time from where the letters started. The blog posts from here on out will contain the beginning of "Pablo's" Navy service. Enjoy!
Kristy
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*"I thought lots about you and the drafts and asked our Creator to guide my mind and decisions." (January 24, 1945)
*"Now I’ll leave you in words but not in thoughts."
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Love Letters
Skipper (Harriet) and Pablo (Paul) are my grandparents. Their life story has so many little jewels and nuggets of wisdom. After meeting in High School, they spent many years apart due to service in the Navy and missionary work. I have the privilege of typing up some of the letters they wrote to each other while my granddad was in the Navy from 1945-1947 (with the blessing of my Granddad). Getting to know my grandparents through their words as teenagers is bringing me a lot of joy. My hope is that through sharing their letters of love, commitment, admiration and longing for what was good and right. will bring a greater insight into the lives of these two amazing people. Enjoy!
Memories
Tender Tidbits
I maintain that you dance better than any I’ve run across since then. Maybe it’s just because we were used to each other but what ever it is, those were the dances. (5.14.45)
I’ve made the fact known that my mind is full of memories and thoughts and my heart full of feelings. (3.13.45)
I want to be where you is instead of where I be. Because I are where you is not and it ain’t no place for me. I used to think the world was great but now I think it isn’t for I have gone where you is not and left you where I isn’t. (3.12.45)
*"A little while ago I talked to you on the phone and didn’t have much to say. Right now I’m on guard duty and also writing a letter with not much to say either. Probably at times like long distance phone calls it isn’t so much what you say anyway-more what you feel." (3.11.45)
*"We’ll agree then, that we really are missing the time of our life being separated. Maybe I won’t die for my country but I am giving part of my life because you-now are my life and it’s logical to say that the time I spend away from you is not much different from time taken out of my life." (3.7.45)
*"I sopped those words up like a dry swab does gasoline."
*"It’s like you said, “Those words are food.” And Skip, I’m almost starved to death." (January 20, 1945)
* "Sometimes at night when it’s dark and silent, I drift so far away in my thoughts and longing for you that I’d like to squeeze water out of my pillow. Just as anger can become “riled up” in a person so can the opposite feeling. And boy sometimes I get so “riled up” that my heart beats like I’ve been running."
Life Lessons
*Keep on the good course and when a little rough going’ comes, don’t let it jar your compass or get you fouled up. (4.14.45)
*“It’s better to be a big shot in a little town than a little shot in a big town.” (Paul's mother-4.12.45)
*I’m sure sorry I got fouled up on the birthday hon. I guess though it’s a man’s well exercised right-to forget dates. I’ve started already. (3.19.45)
*"When a person leaves another that means something to them, that person builds them up more than they really are." (2.28.45)
*"Haste makes waste" (2.28.45)
*"There’s a girl waiting home for me. She has faith in my steadfastness in the things I try to make you guys see. I think she’s near perfect and I’m trying to live just as I want her to live.”
*"We’ll agree that a person’s thoughts and usually their actions can be foreseen by their talk or in other words a smutty tongue betrays a smutty heart."
Heartfelt Closing Quotes
*My love Skipper. All of it. (5.19.45)
*I’ll see you after while. Day dreaming and nothing else." (4.12.45)
*"I’ll close now my darling with an awful lot of love for you." (3.8.45)
*"For now, always and even forever, here’s all the love my weary soul can muster you darling." (February 6, 1945)
*"A kiss and a prayer are yours. Throw in my love too until I’m asleep."
*"A few eternities of love."
*"May God be with you. My thoughts and love are."
*"Now and forever may the day break and the shadows flee away."
Movies
*Keep Your Powder Dry
*Diamond Horseshoe
*Salome Where She Danced
*Hellzapoppin
*Imposter
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame
*Roughly Speaking
*Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
*A Soldier Came to Dinner
*The Keys to the Kingdom
I'll Be Seeing You
*Since You Went Away
*Lover Come Back
*Song to Remember
*Meet Me in St. Louis
*The Fighting Lady
*Princess and the Pirate-Bob Hope
*The Sign of the Cross
*Practically Yours
Songs
- Bobby Sherwood
- My Task (Tennessee Ernie Ford)
- 3 O'Clock in the Morning (3.6.45)
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