{"id":9102,"date":"2010-12-25T00:21:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T05:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/?p=9102"},"modified":"2010-07-28T16:03:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T21:03:25","slug":"richard-to-alice-15-april-1946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/?p=9102","title":{"rendered":"Richard to Alice: 15 April 1946"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Written to Alice in Indianapolis, Indiana. \u00a0Return addressed: Richard, Ward 43, U.S.N.H., St. Albans, L.I., N.Y.\u00a0 Postmarked at Jamaica, N.Y., on\u00a015 Apr\u00a01946 at 1:30 P.M.]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">April 15, 1946<\/p>\n<p>Hello Sweetheart,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Surprise &#8211; I&#8217;m going to write a letter.\u00a0 I love you Sweetheart.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad you reminded me of something last night.\u00a0 In my excitement of getting out, I had forgotten all about it.\u00a0 I was thinking only of getting back home to you Sweetheart.\u00a0 I know you are rather disgusted with me, but can you forget that and think it over?\u00a0 I would still like to see some of New York and Niagara Falls.\u00a0 We could arrange it if you would come up here.\u00a0 I could let you know when I was getting ready to leave Brooklyn and while I was in Bainbridge, you could come up and get a hotel room.\u00a0 We could look around New York a couple of days and then go on and see the Falls a couple days.\u00a0 We couldn&#8217;t take too long though.\u00a0 I will have to report to my draft board within 10 days after I get discharged.\u00a0 Do you think you will feel like traveling then?\u00a0 You say the word, Sweetheart and we&#8217;ll do it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sorry it slipped my mind.\u00a0 I wanted to do it when we first talked of it and I still do.\u00a0 What do you say?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Good-night Sweetheart<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I love you with all my heart<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pleasant dreams<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Goodnight Sweetheart<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 x x<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8216;Nite<\/p>\n<p>x x<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/images\/richardandalice\/1946\/Apr1946\/richardandalice_15Apr1946.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Richard to Alice: 15 April 1946\" vspace=\"1\" width=\"495\" height=\"738\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would still like to see some of New York and Niagara Falls.  We could arrange it if you would come up here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2625],"tags":[3570,1650,37,263,2571,5772,59,67,143],"class_list":["post-9102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richard-alice","tag-bainbridge","tag-brooklyn","tag-letter-writing","tag-new-york","tag-niagara-falls","tag-richard-alice","tag-travel","tag-war","tag-world-war-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oc9-2mO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9238,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions\/9238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}