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"Ravioli and chicken ever sound good".. "made spaghetti yesterday"... "I beg your pardon but whooooo did you say was going to do the cooking? ?? I've got an idea that a certain little darling wife of mine is going to do the cooking. Don't you?"...…

Leona recognizes that Danny has been a soldier for a year and she hopes he will soon be in civilian clothing. She is outgrowing her regular clothes, eating ice cream 4 days in a row.

He is a cook. He got a purse as a gift for her. He will send money back home as soon as he gets paid. He was not too a religious man, but the distance from home makes him willing to go to church. (italian food/ libro Dante Alighiero p. 13)

Loves to be a mess sargent because he "always wanted to" "since I've been first cook and run the kitchen my own way because I know how most cooks want a kitchen to run". Don't smoke too many (cigarettes?) because they are not good for you. Met a baby…

Danny discloses that he did not get the mess sargent position and that he will be shipping out the following week. He asks her to please consider quitting her factory job due to the heat and her advanced pregnancy. He thanks her for the tomatoes that…

Danny thanks his wife for the salami that she sent. He made the colonel a sandwich. He is happy to have become an uncle, since Bambina had a baby boy. However, he is blue that he may not be present when his own child is born, although he really does…

Leona questions at length about the cookies that her mom made and she sent to Danny. She knows he is not fond of them, but they were filler in the package and she wants to know in what condition they reached him in case she has to ship them overseas.…

Letter taking long. He lost his day of rest. "It would be wonderful when someday we can send the Army to hell, but right now we just have to sit back and take what they dish out... you are one who can take it. Food spolied. Mass and confession, no…

Leona recounts for Danny about her dad watching the baby so that she could go out shopping looking for pepperoni in the Italian markets to add to her care package to Danny. The Italian grocers were out of it until the following week. She jokes about…

Name: (Vincenzo) Vincent Zarrilli Place and date of birth: Calitri (Avellino, Italy) Family origin: Mother: Antonietta (from Calitri, Avellino) Father: Giovanni Zarrilli (from Calitri, Avellino) Spoken languages: Italian (native language) …