Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945 to Estelle Spero

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GLC#
GLC09120.055
Type
Letters
Date
30 June 1942
Author/Creator
Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945
Title
to Estelle Spero
Place Written
Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland
Pagination
8 p. : Height: 16.7 cm, Width: 26 cm
Primary time period
Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
Sub-Era
World War II

Letter written while on guard duty. Diamond describes a formal dance to mark the opening of the camp's new recreation hall that he had attended the night before. He also runs through the couple's financial situation, having been paid that morning. Discusses the training in communications that he has been receiving. Sidney mentions that Carter, his friend, is a member of the Ku Klux auxiliary in Nashville, Tennessee, and states that he is disgusted by "man's inhumanity to man." Diamond expresses his belief that once the war is over the Civil War should be refought, in order to "really free the slaves of the South."

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