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Leonard Kephart to Laura Kephart, February 12, 1942
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In this letter of February 12, 1942, Leonard Kephart (1892-1988) writes his mother, Laura Kephart to wish her a happy 80th birthday. He tells her that his son Buddy left yesterday to go to war and fills her in on the details. He also tells her about his son-in-law Ralph who is stationed in Washington, and mentions if he’s sent away then Lucy will follow. His daughter Barbara will be working at Woodward and Lothrop in Maryland.
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February 12, 1942 Dear Mama, The calendar reminds me that Valentines Day is here again and that has always meant your birthday. I remember that I always used to feel important that my mother’s birthday was on a famous day. Of course it would have been better if it had been on the Fourth of July or Washington birthday but I was willing to settle for Valentines Day. I never knew any other kid who could say that so I felt important by proxy. Furthermore the girls got Valentines but the boys got nothing - or at least theybetter [sic] hadn’t - so I salvaged something from the occasion. I have not forgotten either the time when I announced that you were forty years old when you were about thirty-five. Such ages were all the same to me then. Well that was quite a while ago yet I cant to this day think of it that way. I’m fifty myself now but except for the fact that I dont have much ambition for hard work and ache to think of some of the things I’ve done I still get quite a kick out of life and can laugh as well as ever. Just now there’s not too much to laugh about but there will pass. The only way in which I really notice the passage of years is that no one for quite a while now has referred to me as “young man”. As long as they did that I felt pretty frisky but I’m too gray headed to get away with it, any more. I felt pretty old and forlorn yesterday then Buddy left to go to war. I did hope that we would never again have to go through that and I still think that the whole thing is the result of incredible stupidity but its here and wev’e [sic] got to face it. Buddy was called in the draft but he got an appointment to the Coast Guard Academy at New London so he at least ought to get a commission out of it. He spends the first month as an enlisted man at $21 then three months as a cadet at $65 and then, if he qualifies, he is commissioned Ensign. I dont know what sort of job he can fill but I suspect they will use these short term Ensigns, like those from Annapolis, in charge of gun crews on merchant vessels. Thats a pretty mean and dangerous job but I guess they all are that. Ralph is a First Lieut. in the Air Corps and stationed at present in the office of the Chief of the Air Corps here in Washington. He was an Infantry Reserve Officer but for some reason they put him in the Air Corps. He knows nothing about it but is apparently getting along all right. I dont know how long he will be here. Jane is still teaching school but says she will quit if he is sent away. I tell her she would be foolish to try and follow him around but I guess she will do it if she can. Barbara is going to Maryland and working Saturday at Woodward and Lothrops. She put in six months there last year in the Main Office and made out so well that they tell her there will be a job for her there whenever she wants it. I think she would be good at personnel work - she certainly takes enough interest in other peoples affairs. She and Walter Winchell. Well, I hope the Eightieth goes off in fine style. After all we get to these places only once and ought to enjoy the honor. So heres to good luck and good health and best wishes to Mama and Granny from all of us. With love,
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Horace Kephart
