| dc.description.transcription | Dear Mrs. Deakins was so glad to receive your letter but disappointed to learn that it had been some while since you'd heard from Amon Jr? After I wrote to you at Christmas time, telling you that I had rec'd a card xmas day (dated 9/14/44) I later rec'd a letter (about the middle of Jan) which was dated Oct. 24th. However your last letter was a few days later. I was thrilled at the time but now, after re-reading some letter I feel rather despondent. His letters failing to come to you since Oct. 31st has puzzled me for you all usually heard several times since I have. In his last 2 letters he spoke of my letters arriving regularly? Yet it the last paragraph of the last on (10/24) he said mail has bad started arriving regularly after 2 months of no mail. Yet, in the preceding letter (9/14). He spoke of getting all my letters- I've reached the conclusion now that he isn't allowed to tell the truth at all and too in his Oct. letter part of it was black out and that has never happened before? I'm enclosing it with this letter. you read it and return it when you answer my letter. Where he says, "in you last letter, you said something about your friend in L-ville and then blacked out. I tried to ask him for how he felt and stated it so that he would know I meant him, but that censor would think it was a friend. Do you know of any way this could be recovered so the writing could be seen? I feel it's something about his health. Last night, I just couldn't sleep at all for worrying about him. Hope I'm not too pessimistic? Won't it be glorious if the did reach Oflag 64 in time to release them? I have begged God to let him come some again to his loved ones, for he loved them all so much and spoke of all of them with such great respect. It has served ages instead of years since he let o him I guess, it's seems eternities. Sometimes I feel so helpless but all I could do I have done, write everyday OD you suppose any of the mail will get through now? In January issue of Cosmo, Larry Allen's article gave me so much hope. I was reading it and ran into Amon's name - you can imagine how I felt? It was such a thrill to know that he had charge o the Red Cross parcels, but you, sine you all haven't heard, I wonder? Did Mr. Allen tell you all that he was in fairly good condition where he was repatriated? He has spoken of his feet so often but Mr. Allen would have sworn it if he had been ill, wouldn't he? Hope you can understand these questions? I stay so close to the radio now and try to write too, that my letter must be complicated in places - I'm also enclosing 1 article from the L-ville Times and 1 from Courier Journal about Oflag 64. Am sure our had the news already but thought you'd like to see these articles. I'm staying busy as I can these days - directing a choir and working on a Radio program but it keeps me from thinking so much . My school will be out in May and I suppose I'll stay at home to go to school in L-ville. I'm taking voice lessons here but want to get more advanced lessons. Mrs. Deakins I'm sending you a Valentine gift - again , a token of gratefulness for our letters about Amon Jr. Odd - the name of the gift? Some of you relatives? If you have any news, I'd love to hear as soon as it is possible for you to let me hear, let's keep our finger's crossed and hoping good news wall soon come Sincerely, M. Harding PS- A friend of min from our neighborhood is here wrote from England last week and said that two nights he has been listening to German radio of news and that they've spoken of Amon Carter Jr. once - they said that each POW had a hobby and that Amon had a pet crow. There again, he aid that they said they were broadcasting from Oflag 64 and that they mentioned his name again referring to him as the pet of the camp. My friend said that we could never believe what they heard from those broadcasts as so much or practically all news, was propaganda. He didn't say just when he heard this he just said it was recently. So perhaps it was since Oct. 31st I'm writing to him today to try to find out just when he heard those reports. | |
