To Princess from Krug (ePub)

Dale was seventeen when the Second World War had finally ended. After the
end of the war, he eagerly set his sights on higher learning and began to pursue his
own lofty personal goals, in a peacetime America. In 1950, after the Korean War
erupted into the lives of the, still battle-weary people of the United States, young
men were targeted, once again, by the United States Military. Dale had just turned
twenty-two years old.
Much attention has been given, of late, to letters written by the men who served
in the Armed Forces, of the United States, this past century. I believe that in my
letters, written by a raw young sailor, Krug to Princess, one might be able to gain
much insight, on what many of the young men, like Dale, went through in those
uncertain times. Dale labored to write Connie a daily letter. Depending on
circumstances, he sometimes could only write every two or three days, but most of
the time he maintained his daily schedule, of notes and letters. Some of Krugs
letters, from the war zone, were lost before they reached me, but because of the
frequency of his writing, most came through to me. So, even though a few letters
were lost, I still have a steady diary, of Krugs day-to-day activities in his first year
of life in the Navy, at the beginning of the Korean War. Dale dedicated himself to
motivate me to, want to, wait for him to come home to our marriage, by keeping my
interest in him, alive. He worked hard, to make his beautiful love notes, both
interesting and informative in reading content.