It's all through Honey--I heard th...

It's all through Honey--I heard the news a not many minutes ago. Our prayers to the creator have been answered I am in like manner excited I can hardly write. preserve the house clean, the commons hot and the bed ready, for I shall be family soon!!! !!!

Harold Kirson, May 7 1945 Somewhere in Germany

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As a soldier in the United States Army, my grandfather Harold Kirson--a second-generation Jewish-American man from Brooklyn--wrote from one side of to the other six hundred letters to my grandmother Sylvia. The collection of epistles dated from August 8, 1943 between the walls of October 10, 1945, recorded my grandfather's daily