Dear County Agent Guy
The bulging white canvas bag arrived at my Nelson grandparents’ farmhouse in late February 1946. On one side is Grandpa’s address; on the other is scrawled “L.A. Nelson S1/c, U.S.S. Washington, 9th Div., FPO New York, NY.”
Dad’s Navy uniforms had come home.
My father, Leonard, joined the Navy in 1943 at age 17. I never asked Dad what motivated him. Was it patriotism? A sense of duty? Or did he simpl…