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25 December 1943
Diamond, Sidney, (1922-1945)
to Estelle Spero
Christmas Greetings card to Estelle.
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30 December 1943
Diamond describes a conversation with one of the "natives" about love and marriage.
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Diamond tells Estelle that they will get married immediately upon his return. He states that if anything happens to him she should know one thing: "I've led a full pleasant life - I missed out on but one thing - marriage…"
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5 January 1944
Diamond refers to some of Estelle's letters that he has received.
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7 January 1944
Diamond reassures Estelle that the nurse featured in one of the photographs that he had sent home is engaged.
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12 January 1944
Diamond instructs Estelle to be good, happy and to keep her level head.
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14 February 1944
Diamond apologizes for having neglected Estelle on St. Valentines day.
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18 February 1944
Diamond writes that he imagines embracing Estelle.
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25 February 1944
Diamond describes writing to the wife of one of his men about his death, an experience that made him realize the "ridiculous emptiness of words".
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28 February 1944
Diamond tells Estelle that her "guy is getting along satisfactorily - nothing to write about of any consequence
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29 February 1944
Diamond informs Estelle that his vocabulary is too limited to express how grateful he is for everything that she has done for him.
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3 March 1944
Diamond informs Estelle that she has become an integral part of his daily routine.
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5 March 1944
Diamond implies that since it was a leap year, Estelle should have proposed to him.
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14 March 1944
Diamond writes that he is recovering from a 96 hour stretch without sleep: "I needed your shoulder badly".
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31 March 1944
Diamond describes bumping into a girl from Coney Island.
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4 April 1944
Diamond writes that the oriental inscription on the ring that Estelle bought for him causes him embarrassment, as people assume that he "Got that off a Jap".
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10 April 1944
Diamond writes that he is using the lantern that Estelle sent him for the first time, and consoles her for the confusion that she is experiencing concerning her job.
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11 April 1944
Diamond writes on his birthday that he feels "one hundred years older." He recommends that she reads "The Robe" by Lloyd C. Douglas.
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17 April 1944
Diamond describes the contents of a package that his parents have sent him. He recalls the day that he proposed to Estelle, and comments that nearly a year has passed since that date, May 18th. He then discusses how important Estelle is to him in...
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26 April 1944
Diamond, Sidney (1922-1945)
Diamond discusses the trials of being so far from one's sweetheart. He recounts the story of his former sergeant, who had been engaged, but whose ex-fiancee is now using the bedroom set that he had purchased with her new husband. He mentions that...
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3 May 1944
Diamond discusses his opinions regarding pre-embarkation marriage.
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11 May 1944
Diamond writes that he has enclosed a questionnaire that "concerns two misguided morons who for no other reason than lust, financial gain, and imbecility consider the problem of spending the rest of their natural lives making each other miserable."
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23 May 1944
Diamond informs Estelle that he was menat to go to the general hospital to have his surgery, but instead he had managed to persuade the doctor to operate on him in the line hospital. Had he been moved, he "would have left on a certain morning on a...
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24 May 1944
Diamond informs Estelle that wherever she happens to be on her birthday, she should know that he will be thinking of her. He also writes that there is "nothing new to report from 'sick bay'".
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25 May 1944
Diamond writes that there are rumors that some nurses may be sent to the army hospital. If this transpires to be true, he states that they will be the first white women that he has seen in seven months.
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