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Soldiers and families share Christmas hopes in New Ulm notes
Local readers recount service members in Navy, Army and S A T C stationed from Gibraltar to Camp Wadsworth and Great Lakes. Families report discharges, returns home for holidays, letters from France describe daily chores, trains bustle with veterans, beets marketing heats farm life, and a baby joins the community as wartime notes end with homebound scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Crumsett
Sleepy Fye
Charles Crumiett
Navy
Gibraltar
U. S
Buffalo
New York
Roy Crumlett
George Lund
William L. Dietz
Isson
Dun
France
Camp Wadsworth
S. C
Will
Anna Vogel
Springfield
Andrey
W. J. Walker
Sleepy
Eve
Johnston Walker
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