"Wife" is my grandfather's wife, Marie Schack Greed. Yes, that is a German name. She supposedly ran away from home because she didn't want to speak German. I have some letters to her from a cousin who married a well-off man and lived on Long Island. The cousin complains about some of the shortages.
"Gertrude" is Myron's and Arthur's sister. I don't know if she had married yet.
"little Martha" is my mother.
"nigger" - sigh! What would they think of how multi-hued his brother's descendants have become or may become? And what would they think of their buddies in future wars?
Others in this series are:
Optimism in the Great War (1917-10-13)
Optimism in the Great War (1918 Spring)
Optimism in the Great War (Summer 1918)
