European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse W. We struggled a cd Cut own discouragement grew Lent we too bed stir secrets. And in what varying parases4hat it i evil god brings that great evil War i later the madman brought a inv Ter addressed to Shes to cerebral Palby for. A to i a Jess Karen of of myself Cpl Jiddle some of my buddies Rea. We came upon your _ read All about you in Athen we kind of ook you As. Girl i have been asked that Robert punker Ralph Albert Carter and a myself want to keep your Chin up and 1 be big and a Twig. We Are you to keep in the Good e know you will mate the praying for you and You to write to us and Send x of you we Are with the act and we Are with a tank s have named our tank aft righting Karen/1 four lads Ingobert Balzli. ,w Karen Salibi a Small voice mining Over As were mine be very Brave Xet s answer. Right this and i typed for Over an Fusu Fulks ran in Sweet phrases and lots of questions. I called the who had done the picture Forand asked him to finish a it to the boys hoping that in Lime for Christmas. Back to the Kitchen Karen Pom please hand me my of think full practice walking for a and try not to fall at All they re counting on me. I can t let them Down. That was the beginning. Karen worked As she never had before. Twas slow hard and at times terribly Dis ,. To urging. Just when she seemed to de impair of standing or sitting perfectly erect with i canny timing the boys wrote k on dec 22, the whole family was setting up tip run with the figures of Mary and a Josepj and uie animals when the second Teofe arrived it was dated dec 10.and it in r Dearest Karen today we Are Back off the line for a Brost and we got our mail and in it letter. You Don t know How Happy we were to hear from you. Albertas killed,.four Days ago arid Ralph was sent Back to Japan. He was wounded i. Haw to Tell you this but i Felt you would want to know Karen jul to Usi jew re stops. And if the three opine out of this alive we Willlie Gia and see you be a Brave and Sweet Uttie Giri l v love i Eddie Robert Ralph Albert the next Day at lunch Eriv i complimented her of her Superb sitting posture. Come Totth Ihfe of it i said i Haven teen All to trying so hard mom Pom she said proudly for the boys Karen continued working and writing. She sent pictures of the Frauly the old House we. Were buying in Larchmont and her pets. Christmas Day we All Knelt be fore the crib and asked the infant Jesus to please take care of Eddie. Robert an Ralph and please bring them Home soon and please please bring peace to the v " " Only twice that Bay. A it was just As hard for Karen to make her hands and fingers work right As it was to make her legs work right but with no prompting from family she began to work hard on Fine gestures at the table. We were lavish with our Praise and she re Tor Ted blithely the boys will probably want to take me out to dinner when they come Home and they must be proud of one Day in january a letter came addressed to Oie but it read in part for Karen i 5th St. Field Hospital uss Constellation Hospital ship dear mrs. Killilea Ile Heve wat titty shipment to a Hospital in Jap a i hate to Tell youths but i have More bad news for you. Ralph died about eight Days Ngo. wounded again for the second time. A slug in the for Robert he went Back to Japan for a rest by this time in a Day or so ill be in Japan and will write to you from there. I want you All to try and understand that what has happened is something of god s a Forks. Now there is Robert an myself left and i la probably come Home Karen we Jtb ugh Ting Tor the right Tobe free soil it Means giving my and our lines so the . And the world will stay free then i am willing to give it to god above. Don t let me an Robert and the rest of us Down. We Are All counting on you. I from Eddie and Robert before Karen recovered from the thrill of this Tetter we came to the Bottom of the mail pile and found another. On the Backof the envelope printed Large and firm with Many squiggly lines underneath were the words Rush to a sweetheart of a girl it was from Eddie and in it were these words i wish i had words to Tell you about your letters. They gave us All some thing to look Forward to. We read the letters aloud together. We All said i you could fight to hard we figured we could do it too. God bless moved to Larchmont and had a full length Mirror put up in Karea s room Andin the dining room. Now i can watch myself and see if i m straight,1 she said. She began to walk better sit better and use her hands better. She was working harder than she had Ever worked oae memorable Day this letter came i Beautiful Karen i am in the Hospital and am Okay. Think i got All your letters. 1 pass them around to my buddies and the nurses an doctors and japanese internet read them too. They have All seen your picture and i think you. Are Beautiful too. Please Don t think i have forgotten you because i did not write last week. And. Remember i Apt going to get Home soon. They Are giving me treatments and therapy now too. I. And having to learn up walk again so. Let s Try to " Eddie As hard As she had worked before she worked Tiven harder now. I. Was awakened one morning just , by the shrill ringing of the phone a female voice said. I have a Calls for miss Karen Killilea from Beppo Japan.1 j we carried Karen from her Beo and put the phone in her hands. I heard her cry of Eddie Eddiel he s Tsoming Home Karen was Friday tune 6, 8 22 pm. The phone rang and a voice said this is sgt Eddie Brothers. I m Home Fli be there sunday at 1 o 10 o clock sunday morning we had been to Church had breakfast tidied the he was there in the doorway he crossed the room. i saw that Eddie was holding Karen As gently As tenderly As though she were his daughter and i saw that they did t need me. I left them was a right but i thought of the Many other boys and girls who Aren t Allright the forgotten 96 out of every 100 Young victims of cerebral palsy in the Aren t receiving adequate treatment and care. Ii thought of the terribly unfortunate cases for whom i and others have worked through the United cerebral palsy Assn. Eddie came Back for Christmas audit was a wondrous Christmas for Karen. But what about those forgotten children Aren t there other eddies to help them this Christmas it s not too late to bring couty a to some of them too. " copyright 1552 Hearst publishing Lac. Reprinted from american -., Abb a i Strtt Flat first Jettrew Buffen Ione so never Hen be a Encl to despair. The Loyb wrote again i. By Iff o we had been to Church tidied tace taut suddenly he was the refolding Karen As tenderly As though she were his daughter Wight. ,. And Zifcu Sheft them together. Vii
