Tuesday
"Studied all day. Plenty to learn. If I can just remember it all.
Had duty, brig guard. Got two letters from sweet and answered them this evening. Mustered at 8:30, then washed clothes and cleaned up and hit the sack."
So I just get caught up and here is leap year. There are three pages of notes and memos. Some of the these pages are filled in by other family members after he went to sea and left the diary with my mother. Following will be the notes that
dad made:
"The man that is free has his liberty, so I must stand up and fight, that someday I will have this wonderful God given right."
"The soldier on land, and the sailors at sea, all left our loved ones so dear, to fight for this right, against the foes of might, that these loved ones may live without fear."
"I left my wonderful home, and the one I love more that life, I know that someday, if I be God's will, I will return from this assignment to kill, to a life in a beautiful world again, where I will live and love at my will."
Among the flowers and trees and sky so blue, with the love of my wife and God so true, I am a home of my own, with a will of my own, determining what I will do. The price can never be too great that we must pay, to live in a free happy world someday."
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