MIKE'S LETTERS
SHORT STORYFrom the Parsons Sun, no date, beneath a picture of Mike:
Mike Daley ,26, son of Mrs. Mary Daley, 2421 Main, who was reported missing in action in the Java area.
Daley, who is possibly a prisoner of war, was a telephone operator in the army service of supply and has been stationed at Java since shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He has been in the army since March 1941.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WESTERN UNION
WASHINGTON D.C. MAY 2, 1943.
MRS MARY B DALEY=
YOUR SON PRIVATE MICHAEL J DALEY REPORTED A PRISONER OF WAR OF THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT LETTER OF INFORMATION FOLLOWS FROM PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL=
ULIO THE ADJ GENL.
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The following article from the PARSONS SUN, no date shown:
PRISONER OF JAPS—Pvt. Michael J. (Mike) Daley, 27, is being held as a prisoner of war by the Japanese, his mother, Mrs. Mary B. Daley, 2421 Main, learned yesterday when she received a telegram from the war department. Daley was reported missing in the Java area last June and the word yesterday was the first received in nearly a year. The message stated that "details would follow." Daley was a telephone operator in the army service of supply and was sent to Java shortly before the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor.
Again, thank you for posting these letters and other communications. I find myself looking forward to reading the latest installment daily.
I also look forward to these daily letters.
Yes the changes in our world are dramatic.
Ask a kid to do without their cell phone and laptop.
When I was a young man, I was lucky enough to know my Grandfather who was a 'Sooner' as a child.
Having been born in 1878 and dying in 1976, IMAGINE the changes he saw in his life!
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