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  • Description: In the letter, Joe writes to Agnes sharing how he passes the time with a phonograph and a radio playing popular recordings, the news, and swing music from the United States.
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  • Text: ...rding programs such as Bing Crosby, Eddie Cantor, Red Skeleton and so forth. On the radio we get the news [Page 3] and swing music coming from the States. So, you seem to like school this year, Eh! Honey! Well I guess it’s O.K. at first but your opinion may change later on. Ha! Ha! Does m...
Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, October 8, 1942

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  • Text: ...I can put a lot of pictures in it also. The regimental band just drove in and now we’ll have a little jazz music to brighten us up a bit. What are the most popular songs and bands back now days? The last one I got a chance to hear was “When the Lights gone on again All over the World.�...
Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, August 12, 1943

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Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, January 14, 1944

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Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, January 15, 1944

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  • Text: ...icture, but little do they know of what I think of it. We have a radio in our ward now and it’s grand to hear the news and music by leading bands. Two more days and it will be the 4th of July and my mind rushes back to the time when we were last together. I shall never forget that day eit...
Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, July 2, 1944

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  • Text: I haven’t heard any of the new songs you mentioned and wish that I could hear the music of them. So, the young lady wants to learn how to swim. Well you can’t learn to swim setting out of the water. Ha! Ha! I’ll try to teach you and you’d better be a good pupil or else.
Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, September 20, 1943

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Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, April 6, 1944