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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.
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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
Not really a Real Photo Post Card, but instead just a lady's picture cut and pasted onto a commercial pre-printed floral post card.
1964 postcard home from Tom.
"I'm very sorry you didn't come. In mom's letter it says Dale caught a 15 pound snook and you ate it. Boy what a time to miss out on eating at home and tell betsy that I'm sorry she wasn't there. The take-off felt like a million m.p.h. in a 10 zone even through when you're at 37,000 feet up you can't see a thing but clouds. Have fun eating, please wright just to me .
Yours truly Tom, by the writing
Bella again in one of the very first captures of the "photo session" As soon as I saw this in the view finder I knew it was a winner.
Hoi An (Viet Nam), Dec. 2008 --
Il y avait, la’, comme un charme maudit / cet endroit jadis siege d’un palais royal / a’ present une marveilleuse ruine oubliee.
We got a cool postcard from Alex, Gregg and the gang. They got to see a rock named after snoopy. It doesn't look much like a dog as we expected.
Thanks for thinking of us while you were on vacation
~ George, Gund and Nigel