A Letter home - March 2, 1945
March 2, 1945
"Hello Mom & Dad, I just got three letters from you. Its the first mail we have got for a good while. I am in Iwo Jima now. I have been here for several days now. I am writing this in my fox hole. Ever time the big gun goes off the dirt trickles down in the fox hole. I have to keep throwing it out. The Japs are a lot smaller than we are. Don't worry about me, I am O.K. Mortar shells have landed pretty close but none of them too close to hurt anything. Them damned Japs couldn't hit the side of a barn. I got a letter from Connie just before I got on the boat to come here. I haven't had time to write her yet. I'll write as soon as I can. I am using the stock of my rifle to write this on, I don't know whether you can read this or not. Who won the sectional tourney? I hope Waynetown or Covington did. This is about all I can think of so write soon and don't worry, I am O.K."
Your son, Kenny
Certificate with stamped signature, Franklin D Roosevelt Kenneth D., US Marine Corps Died in the Service of his Country Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands 7 March, 1945
Thanks so very much to Kevin Prather for this wonderful piece of history and to honor a gone Marine