JEFFERSON TWP — John Alwine didn’t hear much from his father about his experiences serving in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II.

He had to read about it decades later, in about 70 letters exchanged between his father, John Alwine Sr., and his mother, Edna Alwine, née Roudybush, during the conflict.

The burgeoning couple wrote to one another up to several times a week in 1944 and 1945 — Alwine Sr. keeping his sweetheart abreast of happenings in the war and Roudybush keeping him up-to-date on the homefront.

The letters are a little wrinkled and withered after decades of being kept in a box in Alwine’s closet, and he said that some of them were probably not in good shape to begin with. He said he finally read through many of them when he took them out from storage this summer. Se

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