| dc.description.transcription | Dear Mr. Carter: I hardly know just how to start writing you as you are a stranger to me and I suppose you are already wondering just who I am and how I ever ran across your address. Well, a Miss Minne Rager, whose rother is in or maybe should say, was in the same prison camp in Germany as your son, gave me your address quite a few months ago. My husband has been missing in action since Sept. 19 1943 and ther seems to be no trace of him anywhere. I have written to everybody that you could possibly think of about him and there just seems to be no trace of him after the day he was misssing. Now, Miss rogers's brother, also a member of the 36th division. was with him atht he time he was missing and he was reariated a prisoner of war in Dec. of 1943. The Red Cross informed me tha there was just nothing they could do about it so did our district Congressment , War Dept, and Missing person's Bureau. I was wondering if you would telll you son, when he comes home to write to me so that i could ask him a few questiosn. Of course if I hear anyting before then I will let you know. I don't think I will thought, that I will be able to find anthing at all until the prisoners of war return home. I only hope that you son was one to the fortunate ones, that was liberated not so long ago. Hope you don't think I ahve been to bold by writing you I'm really just trying to find out something definite to go me you know. Respectfully, John Mader Jr. | |
