To Princess from Krug

Dale was seventeen when the Second World War had finally ended.

After theend of the war, he eagerly set his sights on higher learning and began to pursue hisown lofty personal goals, in a peacetime America.

In 1950, after the Korean Warerupted into the lives of the, still battle-weary people of the United States, youngmen were targeted, once again, by the United States Military.

Dale had just turnedtwenty-two years old. Much attention has been given, of late, to letters written by the men who servedin the Armed Forces, of the United States, this past century.

I believe that in myletters, written by a raw young sailor, Krug to Princess, one might be able to gainmuch insight, on what many of the young men, like Dale, went through in thoseuncertain times.

Dale labored to write Connie a daily letter. Depending oncircumstances, he sometimes could only write every two or three days, but most ofthe time he maintained his daily schedule, of notes and letters.

Some of Krugsletters, from the war zone, were lost before they reached me, but because of thefrequency of his writing, most came through to me.

So, even though a few letterswere lost, I still have a steady diary, of Krugs day-to-day activities in his first yearof life in the Navy, at the beginning of the Korean War.

Dale dedicated himself tomotivate me to, want to, wait for him to come home to our marriage, by keeping myinterest in him, alive.

He worked hard, to make his beautiful love notes, bothinteresting and informative in reading content.