Save That Boy!

One thing in particular strikes me about this card, sent in 1943. It's the boy in the second row on the very left. His pants are pulled up high by suspenders. He looks like a skinny farm boy, who has fed the chickens, milked the cows, and is now being sent off to war. His family misses him already. I want to send him back home, but it's decades too late.
The message on this card reads:

This is what I looked like 4 months ago.

Love, Charles

Last Known Survivor of the San Francisco Earthquake Dies

This weekend, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Jeanette Scola Trapani died; she was thought to be the oldest survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. This is not the first time that the oldest known survivor has died, but at some point they will be right because these survivors are now very old.  Jeanette Scola Trapani was only four when the disaster happened, but that still meant she was 107 when she died. And despite her young age at the time, she remembered the earthquake.

As a tribute to Jeanette Trapani and all of the other survivors, I'm posting a few postcards from the earthquake.

All Birthday Joys