This blog is a place for the letters that Corporal Max Blazzard wrote home to his family during his service in WWII, and a few that they wrote to him.

Sunday, June 15, 2014

September 11, 1944


France

September 11, 1944
Dear Mother and all,

            I just finished a letter to Kenneth and am going to make a stab at one to you and Rosalie. Everything is going on as usual around here. I washed a few pieces this morning. After that I rigged up an old bicycle that we hauled from England with us. I rode it around town a while and have been fooling with it off and on all day when I haven’t been busy. Just down the road, a French man has got some of the best damned peaches I mean that I’ve had in France. Ha. Yesterday, I gave a Frenchman an old shirt of mine and he invited me over to his place. I went over and he brought out cider and cognac and a glass. I took the glass and walked over to the pump and drank a couple of glasses of water and said no thanks to his drinks. He thought I was crazy. His daughter brought me a handful of ripe apples and peaches. They weren’t as good as those I picked down the road.

            I just had Bing Crosby and a good program on. My radios do come in handy for something anyway. I’ll cut this one short and write a quick note to Rosalie before dark.
Love to all
Your son,
Max

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