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Hospital Apprentice Wilbur Jones
Sr. in the Charleston, S.C., naval
hospital.
“My Dear Little Navy Boy:
That picture is fine of you. But I
really do think it would look bet-ter
if you had on your glasses. I
never did say that you were a bad
looking guy did I?”
Imagine today an eighth grader
and a grown man.
“I am still studying. I wish you
could come to see me graduate.
Memories, memories, dreams of
love so true. Oh, dear, you know
it’s not always the age that counts
is it?”
He sent a graduation ring.
“I am sorry I was not by your
sweet side when you opened
the jewelry. My love for you has
started to grow and now from
the depths of my heart I do love
you better than any one on God’s
earth. I am glad your love for
me is growing day by day. Dear
I pray for you every day. Yes you
are pretty and a healthy little girl.
Dear it did sound so sweet to
read that you expect to be mine
in the near future. That gives me
something to look forward to and
live for.”
In writing about Charleston
sailors “roughing up girls in town,”
his religious upbringing surfaced.
“All boys and girls got to fall on
their knees and ask the forgiveness
of sin and try to live a true life, for
the nation has forgotten personal
health and are going to the bad.”
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WBM february 2019
WILBUR D. JONES, JR. COLLECTION