BIRTHDAY WISHES
February 26th, 2010 | 2:00 pm
Photo Courtesy of Robert M. Edsel Collection
This is but one of the dozens and dozens of touching messages I have come across in researching the letters of the Monuments Men. Western Union telegrams were sent only on rare, and oftentimes very special, occasions – in this case Monuments Man Robert Posey sent a birthday telegram to his young son, Dennis. Posey was stationed in Nancy, France in February 1944, and no doubt missed his family tremendously.
