Communications From Survivors
The following text was printed on the message (non-address) side of standardized postcard "Subron 4 Standard Form No. F14 471-A-S/M Base. PH-7-15-41-20M." distributed to naval personnel at Pearl Harbor to communicate with their families following the attack:
- NOTHING is too be written on this side except to fill in the data specified.
- Sentences not required should be crossed out.
- IF ANYTHING ELSE IS ADDED THE POSTCARD WILL BE DESTROYED.
- I am well (sick
- I have been admitted to hospital as (wounded
- -(Serious -(not serious
- Am getting on well. Hope to return to duty soon.
- I have received your (Letter dated_______ (Telegram dated_______ (Parcel dated_______
- Letter follows at first opportunity.
- I have received no letter from you (for a long time (lately.
- Signature___________________________
- Date_______________________________
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“I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.”
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