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Correspondence from Uncle Felix and Aunt Carol (part 5)
I want to say that this envelope says it was 1975 when this letter was mailed. In 1975 Mark would have been 16 years old, and I dont think they were in Japan when he was a teenager. I am thinking that this letter got put in the wrong envelope. Mark if you see this will you please respond to this letter and to what I have written. Come to think about it, I think father died in 1970. Sorry folks I am confused.
The 75 on the envelope isn’t the year. I don’t know enough about postage to tell you what it is. The year is actually under the word “Box” in the address. If you click on the envelope to enlarge it you can see that it is 1959.
The envelope does say 1975, but the date on the letter is 1959. Carol sure writes a nice letter. It makes you almost feel like you are there.
True folks,as Aunt Naomi said 1959 (2-years after I was born at/proximate Mitchell Air Force Base near Aunt Joan’s family in New York ). Thanks Very Much for which ever file was handy to keep this treasure in, and hats-off to my cuz Lloyd for webmastering the site!!
Rosie the maid had us all talking and singing in Japanese in the few years we were there. Japanese TV had a white clothed/haired motorcycle and horse riding hero with a white dog series we all loved, “Hakuba Doji”: http://vintageninja.net/?p=157
US Mail APO was San Francisco CA, the USA entry-point for all US Military Mail from where Felix was stationed then at Tatchikawa Air Force Base, Misowa, Japan. The Felix-clan was back in Maryland/ Washington D.C. for my brother ‘Cuz Scott’s birth 61/62.
Carol wrote the nicest letters to Mother. Writing came so natural to her. You could feel you were almost there with them. She was so sweet. I miss her and Felix.