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Show o 5 j Greetings Daddy Roger Gray Cranmer If I keep growing, my ' daddy will never know me when he gets home. We haven't really had much of a chance to get acquainted because he has never seen me and imagine, when I was just about three weeks old, he went right through Utah, but he couldn't even stop because be-cause he was on his way to England. That was in March of this year but it seems like such a long time. My daddy is Capt. Robert Cranmer and he writes to us often and sends us lots of presents. He picked some English heather and pressed it and sent some home. Grandma Obye has hers in a frame over the piano. He sent mother a beautiful coin bracelet, and I got two cute dogs (not lives ones though) from him. Daddy says peaches are $1.25 each in England, if you can imagine that! He tells us lots of interesting things about people being allowed to visit in southern England for the first time in four years ' and this makes me think things are looking bet- t -V 4 I 14 . - v ' ill" ililPilli wm w 1 -'-sis rmmmM ':i:&mm ... x'', I. ...y' :- : : :-'-v. '''' "'' l--'--' ', ::, v::;S mm mmmmmMmmm : Mftx ' ill aMNiiil.r.Fa!l . . . .; -Si-sis: MmmJmf; 'M:WWM:M-Mt : ? .: w V'j : .... Lh- . V fSfZX&QQWWp&p I-'-"! '"- - K :'- - ' 1 1-'! -i" I t ' -f "A;;'i j l"!ti t?iJ r?f. " rii:! Sharon Marie Long . . Folks think I look like my daddy with dark brown eyes and brown curly hair and a mischievous twinkle in my eyes. He has never seen me because he left for overseas duty just two days before I was born and that was in May . of last year. I've had one birthday and if daddy don't hurry I'll have another before he sees his daughter, and he doesn't know half the cute tricks I do, or how busy I keep my mother. ' My daddy is Levi Frank Long and he is a mechanic in the Fourth Army Air Force somewhere in Australia. Austra-lia. He's a long ways off, but when the wai4 is over, I know he will lose no time in getting back home to us. The last time daddy came home was in January, 1943, and then he could stay only a short time. He had been in the service nine months then. Mother says sometimes some-times it seems like daddy has always been in the ser-vice. ser-vice. We try to be cheerful, though, because we know daddy is doing his best to help the cause along oVer there and that some day he will be back and we will all be happy again. My mother, Lucy Ollerton Long, and I live at 67 West Fourth North St., and go often to visit my grandparents, grandpar-ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Ollerton Ol-lerton in Springville, and Mr. and Mrs. Levi Long in Provo. ter over there, and maybe daddy will soon be home. Daddy told us about the robot ro-bot bombs In England, and about one which landed close to him. I also have an Aunt Betty of whom I am proud, because be-cause she is in the service, too. I hope the German flyers are afraid of daddy and let him come home safe. He goes on two or three missions mis-sions each day in a P-38, and ' is working hard to end this war so he can come back to us. My mother, Mrs. Jeanette Gray Cranmer, and I live witlf my grandfather and grandmother Gray at Tooele. |