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2009 Article 37 Notes and Documents “A Million Kisses”: Love Letters from a Doughboy in France Part One of Two Edited By Paul N. Spellman* earest Baby Wife, Each minute that i have spent with you will be recalled many thousand times to my memor y while “DI am away from you. How I would love to take you in my arms and kiss away your tears and hold my lips to yours in loving affectionate kisses like we always had for each other—going away would seem easier to me—your sweet breath will remain fresh with me then until I come back. A million kisses, your loving husband, Ros” In 1917, Roscoe Conklin Chittim and Vera Diamond found each other when worlds apart collided in a quiet Dallas neighborhood, and their love for each other poured out in letters written a world away on the battle- fields of a terrible war. A sample here of the more than forty love letters that have sur vived tells the stor y of their passion for one another, a passion undimmed by distance, time, or the exigencies of war. Most of the sur viv- ing letters were written by Roscoe. Vera wrote
Southwestern Historical Quarterly – Southwest Center (Univ of Arizona)
Published: Jul 10, 2010
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