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En route to the European Area: I K'Everybody has admired the bracelet you gave me, Mother, and hard as most of them are they still appreciate the thought behind things like that. I can't begin to tell you how much it means to me. It seems as though now I carry you and Sunny Hills along with me. It,s a symbol of all that I am lighting for. Itis funny how a little thing like that can ness is behind this hard to describe. It of deep feeling that mean the line and decent symbol, I am constantly carries in it a sadness and I will always retain within things in life, How much love and kind- aware of. It does things to me that are a joy that combine to make a mellowness me no matter what the outer changes are. s 1 Left on Mother s desk at Arunchala Mother: on a furlough after tne news of Ashtonys death: I know I'm DOI the same person that went to school here two years ago. My life and things in it have been somewhat changed due to the necessity of changing. How- ever, my coming back here still gave me the same old feeling of peace and happiness that all of us knew before. After this is all over, most of us will be coming back here, an army of lost souls with but one question in their minds. Wliy? Why did we have to go through hell to find our happiness? Is there an answer? There couldn't be a justihable one. Your loss has been great, Mother, and yet you have not finished suffering. There are thirty-six more, a few of which are bound to go. This sounds morbid, but nevertheless, looking at it logically you will see that average will have it that way. I feel sorry for you, Mother, because you can't become hard or even pre- tend, like we can. It will touch you again and again. Let me say that I admire your courage greatly, and hope that others will use it as an example. In closing let me say that although I might not talk to you as I did before, it isnlt because I can't or that I don't feel, pecause I do. It is just that I feel I cannot express myself adequately anymore. Inside I know what I want to say, but words fail me at the moment when I should be able to use them. My love for you and Sunny Hills will never change. It has mellowed and become profoundly a part of me. Sorry I couldn't stay longer, forever, in fact. I'll go back now and finish up the dirty work. God bless you. Love, Tom En route to Pacific: As you can see I am on my way longer a new story to me. I wanted to where the shooting is. All it is now is a tedious iob to do, one which be done because it is the right thing to do. Soon I hope it will be all won't be a necessity for me or anyone else to go over again. I want to time with the job completed. I want to be able to sit on your porch again, embarking on an adventure which is no go and still think that the right thing is to be I know has to over and there come back this at Sunny Hills in the summer time and breath in the sweet scent-laden air and know that I shall never have to leave it again. These excerpts from Tom's letters reveal his greatness, his nobility, the wonder of his unconquerable soul, and the depth of his spiritual being. He has come back. Wfe shall find his presence in the strength and stability of these timeless pines, in the sighing of the winter wind, in the maiesty of the summer storm, in the quiet singing of the stream and in the tenderness of twilight when all kindred spirits blend. 7?45
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'fdeyzqaafda ,Q Tuozms F. BICCARTHY Sergczznt, U. S. Dlariinc Corps Uflxcprnt From 'l'om's Letter of Avril Third5 'gVVhat did you think of the job that the U. S. BI. C. did on Iwo Jima? '1'hat,s the kind of stuff that makes me proud of the outfit. There isrft a guy who VVOl11d1'1,t give his life for the Corpsf, . . . Toni gave his life Play 10, 1945. 7945
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