{"id":1137,"date":"2022-10-31T20:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T20:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lacrescenthistory.org\/?page_id=1137"},"modified":"2022-12-04T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T15:11:57","slug":"wwii-letters-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lacrescenthistory.org\/?page_id=1137","title":{"rendered":"WWII Letters Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VOLUME I – The Letters from Men and Women in the Service<\/span>
Click on to download: Volume 1 Letters\u00a0<\/a>
(See Page 3 for alphabetical list of names with matching page numbers.\u00a0 The full mailing list is at the end of this volume.)<\/h2>\n

VOLUME II – The Newsletters sent out from the Community<\/span>
(November 1944 to December 1945)
Click on to download:\u00a0 Volume 2 Newsletters<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n
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If you have questions or comments about the letters or newsletters, please email us: lahs1857@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

BACKGROUND<\/h2>\n
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During World War II, with many young men and women serving in the military, the La Crescent Community Club, a group of volunteers, created a newsletter to local men and women in military service.\u00a0 In return, the service men and women wrote back to the volunteers, sharing information that would be published in subsequent newsletters.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

The newsletters, mailed monthly to 80 or more individuals, were written by a variety of people including Ed Hurley and Mrs. Georgia Fay, mother of Gordon and Hugh.\u00a0 Each newsletter recapped \u201chometown\u201d events news from the service men and women.\u00a0 Not everyone on the mailing list sent a letter back, but the Community Club wanted all of them to feel closer to home.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

At first, Community Club volunteers typed the newsletters on manual typewriters with layers of carbon paper to make copies.\u00a0 An \u201ce\u201d often looked like an \u201co\u201d because the ink gummed up on the striking key.\u00a0 Eventually, local organizations stepped forward to offer their Gestetner and ditto machines.\u00a0 Because of the war effort, volunteers did not use high quality paper, which eventually led to many pages yellowing or the ink fading over the years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOLUME I – The Letters from Men and Women in the ServiceClick on to download: Volume 1 Letters\u00a0(See Page 3 for alphabetical list of names with matching page numbers.\u00a0 The full mailing list is at the end of this volume.) VOLUME II – The Newsletters sent out from the Community(November 1944 to December 1945)Click on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1137","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacrescenthistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacrescenthistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacrescenthistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacrescenthistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacrescenthistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/lacrescenthistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/lacrescenthistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1137\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacrescenthistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}