sashayed:sashayed:Tracy Sugarman, a Jewish sailor and Syracuse-trained illustrator, documented
sashayed:sashayed:Tracy Sugarman, a Jewish sailor and Syracuse-trained illustrator, documented his Navy life during World War II in watercolors and sketches. The drawings, nearly all done quickly and in the moment, were “strictly a kind of dialogue between the sailor and me, or the event and me,” he told the Library of Congress’s Veterans History Project in an interview. He sent most of his artwork home to his wife, June. “After all, all I was trying to do was to capture moments so I could send them home to my bride – so she could get a sense of what these moments were like, what these kids looked like, what the officers looked like, what Plymouth looked like, what a blackout looked like and felt like.They were never meant to be seen by anybody but my wife. So they were very unfinished; they were very spontaneous.”His love letters to June are also pretty spectacular.“I am absolutely positively convinced angel-puss that you are and have been writing so don’t worry [ ] that I think for a moment that I’ve been abandoned! I don’t – I couldn’t, darling. Believe me, sweetheart, I have been with you in spirit since I went away. I know now I will never be alone again. How I pity those men married and unmarried who have never known the absolute completeness of our love, June. And I thank God, even as I ask him to take care of my beloved wife until I return, for the thousand blessings he has given us as one. God bless you, darling Junie – and keep you – for me – for us. Good nite, sweetheart – be with you in a minute.Mmmmmmw………..!!!!!G’nite baby –Your loving husband –now and alwaysTed.” -- source link
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