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Written in pencil aboard the transport ship in Hoboken, New Jersey, as it prepares to join the convoy to France. Buzzy is excited over the prospect of sighting and sinking a U-boat.
Again Dad?s failing eyesight is uppermost on his mind.
1.	The reference to Dad?s people in the New York area is a mystery. What their relationship was and how they got there is never mentioned elsewhere in family records or lore.