One of the interesting things in Solly’s letters is how he never calls another soldier by their name but rather identifies them by the city or state they come from, as with the Brooklyn Major (Medical Officer) he mentions in this letter and others.

I once asked my father if he made friends in the army and if he kept in contact with any of them and he told me he decided before he entered the service that he would not make any friends.  It was not smart, he said, to get connected to anyone.

In the Help Identify category of photos on this blog the two pictures from Dec 1942, which are not Solly’s, also identify the people in the image with their state abbreviation instead of their name.  Perhaps it was a common practice. (Still looking for help identifying the photos in Help Identify).

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