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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Spent the day helping my uncle go through his house which has just had a major fire this week to see what we could salvage and luckily all family photos and ephemera survived the fire without harm. Was hoping to find my dad's baseball cards, but still no such luck...many years ago he told me that I could have his cards if I just went over to Grandma and Grandpa's house to get them. My grandma said that she never saw any of my dad's cards, but my dad insisted they had to be in the house somewhere. No luck today though. OTOH while going through a box of family photos my brother pulled out two postcards from Exeter,NE which may include someone in my family...my great grandma signed the back of one of the postcards and dated it to 1910. I'm not sure if my grandpa or perhaps my grandma's brother is on one or both of these postcards.





On a nonbaseball related topic we also found a bunch of my grandpa's military items from WW2 - my grandpa never talked about the war so we never really knew much about what he did. We found a scrapbook filled with at least 150-200 letters he had written home to my grandma, his diary on Guam, misc military ID's and even an AP photo with an accompanying newsclipping of the same photo from a Boston newspaper.