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First Post Card Home: Mary Anne Crisci
This picture includes a picture of my granddaddy, Bert Moritz McDade Sr., and the first post card that he mailed home. He, as well as many other sailors like him, was very excited to have enlisted to serve our country.
Although the legal age to enlist was 18, McDade lied and was able to enlist when he was only 17 years old. Many Americans look to World War Two veterans as heros. People have called World War Two the 'Good War', America's 'finest hour', and 'the most popular war in American history'. Needless to say, this nationalism is what carried the American sailors and other soldiers through the war so successfully. The war years are said to have brought a very desirable social change. People have referred to the Korean War as 'the forgotten war' and have associated it with the Cold War, the war in Vietnam is considered America's modern nightmare of foreign policy failure, which leaves World War Two to be the last war that Americans were considered good and innocent. Many Americans can look back on World War Two and say that is was morally justifiable, but more importantly militarily successful.
For more informtation on World War Two, go to:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
Wynn, Neil A. "The 'Good War': The Second World War and Postwar American Society", _Journal of Contemporary History _ (1996): 463-464.
send some stamps Thursday
Dear Mom,
Well I am in my bunk writing this. My first night in this mans navy is swell. I passed my exams all right so that about sews up getting in. As soon as I hear from my blood test I will know for sure. Write me Va. address. I do not know my address as yet. I will write as soon as I know.
Love Bert
First Post Card Home: Mary Anne Crisci
This picture includes a picture of my granddaddy, Bert Moritz McDade Sr., and the first post card that he mailed home. He, as well as many other sailors like him, was very excited to have enlisted to serve our country.
Although the legal age to enlist was 18, McDade lied and was able to enlist when he was only 17 years old. Many Americans look to World War Two veterans as heros. People have called World War Two the 'Good War', America's 'finest hour', and 'the most popular war in American history'. Needless to say, this nationalism is what carried the American sailors and other soldiers through the war so successfully. The war years are said to have brought a very desirable social change. People have referred to the Korean War as 'the forgotten war' and have associated it with the Cold War, the war in Vietnam is considered America's modern nightmare of foreign policy failure, which leaves World War Two to be the last war that Americans were considered good and innocent. Many Americans can look back on World War Two and say that is was morally justifiable, but more importantly militarily successful.
For more informtation on World War Two, go to:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
Wynn, Neil A. "The 'Good War': The Second World War and Postwar American Society", _Journal of Contemporary History _ (1996): 463-464.
send some stamps Thursday
Dear Mom,
Well I am in my bunk writing this. My first night in this mans navy is swell. I passed my exams all right so that about sews up getting in. As soon as I hear from my blood test I will know for sure. Write me Va. address. I do not know my address as yet. I will write as soon as I know.
Love Bert