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Steve Bittner/Times-NewsVirginia Vance sits at the computer keyboard at her home in Artemas, Pa. Vance was a creator of “Chit-Chat,” a newsletter for local members of the military during World War II.'Chit-Chat/ newsletters resonate with reader decades after World War IIPublication kept Carlos servicemen abreast of life at homeKRISTIN HARTY BARKLEYTIMES-NEWS STAFF WRITERCARLOS — Elaine Gamble didn't know any of the names in the faded, World War II era-newsletters for “the boys from Carlos” who were fighting overseas.But she read every word — from bits of hometown news (“Mrs. Mildred Fatkin is recovering after a fall down her front steps ...”) to letters from sol-They got to me. I laughed, I cried. They're just really, really neat.Elaine Gamblediers such as Pvt. Alex Middleton (,‘Tve been in France since August and I sure would like to run into some of the hometown boys that are here ...”) toglimpses of how the war touched local families (“Pfc. Samuel Taylor, recently reported missing in action, sent a cable gram to his mother saying he has been a prisoner of the Germans but is now liberatedGamble felt as though she was reading about her own family. She cared that much.“They got to me,” said Gamble, ofSEE 'CHIT-CHATi3A
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