Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945 to Estelle Spero

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GLC#
GLC09120.533
Type
Letters
Date
1 November 1944
Author/Creator
Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945
Title
to Estelle Spero
Place Written
South Pacific
Pagination
6 p. : Height: 21.5 cm, Width: 28 cm
Primary time period
Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
Sub-Era
World War II

Diamond describes his day of departure, which is still "so clear" in his mind, despite the seventeen months that have passed: "There was a peculiar sensation that all this wasn't new - that our ancestors somewhere had experienced the same tightening around the stomach." He then writes about "Johnny Martin", a "nice kid" who had been killed. Sidney ends by apologizing for "this morbid nonsense", explaining that "sometimes the loneliness overwhelms" him. Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

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