Letters, Cartoons, Snapshots — and Five Deep-Dive Appendices
The voices of World War II are almost entirely silent, 80 years after 1945's victory in Japan. Your Loving Son, Ronie is a rare exception — 424 letters that survived shoeboxes, attics and three cross-country moves to land, nearly intact, in his daughter's hands. Alongside the letters are Ronie's own drawings and photographs, and a rich collection of military ephemera. Five substantial appendices go further still, unpacking hundreds of period references: GI slang, the movies and radio shows everyone was talking about, and the overlooked texture of Home Front daily life — from gasoline rationing to rabbits raiding the Victory Garden.