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Weiner, Morris "Moe", 1909-1988 to Sylvia Weiner

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09414.1482 Author/Creator: Weiner, Morris "Moe", 1909-1988 Place Written: Camp Boston, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 17 August 1945 Pagination: 4 p. : envelope Height: 15 cm, Width: 23 cm Order a Copy

Moe read that realistically it may take 3 or 4 months to go home now that the war is over. He likes Sylvia telling him that her mother tried to talk to her as she was writing, and that she said Hanto, the Japanese word for Good Night. Written at Camp Boston

Weiner, Morris "Moe," 1909-1988

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