When Brother Paul served with The United States Army’s Screaming Eagles 101st Airbourne Division, he was stationed in South Korea during the War there.
Each evening after completing my grade school homework at the McKay Street living Room desk, I would write letters to tell him about his family back in Kentucky. Any subject was fair game. He would hear about what vegetables were growing in the back yard garden. The dirt pile was gone across the street and new houses were built. We liked the neighbors who recently bought the. homes. The paper boy’s bicycle had a flat tire in our driveway. Jean and Connie tied Craigie Bishop to the tree near our garage.
Brother Paul informed me that several of his friends did not receive letters during mail call and asked me to write to them. The young soldiers were added to the list and soon became acquainted with Kentucky manners and customs.
Fast forward to one marriage and four children and another war later found me taking up a writing position at a kitchen table after the children were asleep .Quite often I would fall asleep while documenting their daily heroics and wake up at dawn to finish my pages before sending them off to South Vietnam.
Fast forward more years and the children are grown and away from home. This is where I learned the value of carbon paper to tell them what I had been doing throughout my week.
Fast forward to today’s writings-Computer messaging is a game changer!
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