4471945, March Soldier’s Letter to Joan
This one had to be censored.
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Before and during the WWII period
This one had to be censored.
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Joan Lorang acted as a Pen Pal to soldier’s in WWII. Many returned her letters. Here is one on V-Mail, free mail for the soldiers as long as they could write on a 5×4 sheet of paper.
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Bob Lorang and Sammy Soto’s airplane rests off the coast of Japan. Efforts are being made by the families to find out about bringing them up again. Henry Lorang journaled this time and saved Bob’s last letter.
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Martha Lorang had lost her boyfriend of the time, Micheal Tierney, to the Bataan Death March. There is a well-known Army photograph of soldiers on this march. The man in the foreground looks very much like Micheal Tierney and would be the correct age. We don’t know for sure that this is him.
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In 1942, Marguerite spent 4 months in the hospital. She had suffered from her childhood with mild bipolar conditions as well as post-partum depression which was not understood as well at the time. After coming out of the hospital Marguerite was helped by Catholic Charities to return to her nursing job and wasn’t able to
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Henry was often in the hospital after his service in WWI. According to his journals, the paint stiffener “dope” Henry applied to the fabric wings of aeroplanes was toxic. It was also applied in a 96 degree room according to specifications, so it was vaporized and Henry suffered from lung problems for the rest of
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When Henry and his Mother Mary were very worried about paying taxes during the Great Depression, they arranged with Joseph Honecker to buy many of John’s taxidermy items. He never did pay them. There was a misunderstanding, saying that it was all dependent on his ability to sell to the man in Brooklyn and it
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Here is an excerpt of a long Christmas letter, describing how Mary lost her money in the bank during the Great Depression.
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Henry Lorang paid with eggs for the birth of more than one of his children. Here it is in exchange for Mary Alice (Mae’s) birth in 1933, during the Great Depression.
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