WWII gay love letters are honestly the most beautiful, heartbreaking, and anxiety inducing things I’ve ever read, hands down.
This poor guy is about to have a nervous breakdown and almost outed himself to his fellow pilots. Sweetheart…. no….
“All the lads are guessing where we are going, darling. I only know I am going away from the man I love, the one and only you old darling. But I know I will come back darling to you, and it will only be a dream darling.”
Oh my god they’re so in love….
“You don’t know how much I miss you Monty. I love you darling so think good of me my sweetheart. All my love and a merry Xmas.”
So this gent right here is the Monty that received the letters posted above.
And here’s Ralph, the man who had been sending them:
@my-darling-boy I don’t think it’s a picture of Monty at all, can you correct this post darling please?
Whoops, if it’s not a correct picture I apologize! I was referencing a book when I made this post months ago, and could easily have been mistaken!
No problem my friend! Those two are actually very little documented and Alastair owns the most complete but out of stock book about them. I’m sure he’ll add the correct picture soon but don’t worry about it, errare humanum est!
Ah yes, I agree, there is unfortunately very little documentation of these two!
This is actually Monty, and to my knowledge, there are only 3 pictures of him that have been released to the public in the book A Class Apart by James Gardiner.
1) Monty during WWI, photographed 1917
2) Monty is in the center, most likely taken post WWI
3) Monty in a car, visible on the right, most likely taken post WWI
The book, like my boyfriend says, is no longer able to be purchased unless you’re willing to pay a couple hundred for one of the limited copies sold through Amazon :’) I was lucky enough to find a copy on the web for only $15 from a small bookstore in Oregon that was clearing out their inventory and getting rid of the last copy!
And, in the book, next to the photo you have posted of Ralph, this photograph is also to be found! 😛
Since I see no one online anywhere mentioning the details of the book and more on their life together, feel free to message me for any further info on these two and I’ll see if I have an answer!
If you can find the book at a decent price, it is definitely worth the buy; there is much more info about their domestic life as they lived together, plenty more photos of Ralph, Monty’s photography, letters between Monty and Ralph (and unfortunately, letters between Monty and a couple of other boys while Ralph was away during WW2), as well as age progression photos of Ralph that I do find endearing!
I hope this helps!
I just read a really great fanfic and I’m weeping now
He was a young artist employed by the Disney studio, but tasked with the entry-level job of finishing off the work of the animators and crafting the “in-between” animations that completed the characters’ movements. Wong had learned that studio executives were creating a film from the new novel, Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten. Tom says the young artist read the book and without consulting his supervisor, “took the script and painted some visual concepts to set the mood, color and the design.”
His sketches recalled the lush mountain and forest scenes of Sung dynasty landscape paintings. His initiative paid off. Walt Disney, who was looking for something new for the film, was captivated and personally directed that Wong be promoted. Today, top animators and illustrators revere Wong’s work. Children today are as enchanted by the misty, lyrical brushstrokes of Wong’s colorful nature scenes, inspired by his training at Otis College of Art and self-study of Sung Dynasty art
THIS GUY HELPED MAKE THE FILM THAT MADE ME WANT TO BE A FILMMAKER AND *HE IS STILL ALIVE*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I met him at a gallery event a number of years ago and, UGH HE IS SO TALENTED AND SO KIND AND ENCOURAGING THERE IS A REASON WE ALL LOVE HIM. Also, my alma.
GUYS WTF IS THIS CRAZY TALENTED GUY- HE MAKES KITES TO WOW JUST WOW
Ruby Bridges was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.
This movie made me cry, I was so heart broken by how Ruby Bridges was treated! She was only 6, but was so strong. She is a very brave girl and she did not care what the white folks called her.
People are simply disgusting to minimize people by skin color!
Ruby you might not think you’re a hero… But to other people you are! You are A HERO and you are A PERSON WHO MADE AMERICA CHANGE!
this is white culture, this is their history, this is their legacy…being enraged at a damn baby just because she’s black.
she’s still alive by the way
Ruby Bridges in 2010
“As Bridges describes it, “Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. There was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting, and that sort of goes on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras.“ Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, “She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn’t whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we’re all very very proud of her.“
U.S. Marshals escorted Bridges to and from school
As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only one person agreed to teach Ruby and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Henry taught her alone, “as if she were teaching a whole class.”
Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her; because of this, the U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, allowed Ruby to eat only the food that she brought from home.
Another woman at the school put a black baby doll in a wooden coffin and protested with it outside the school, a sight that Bridges Hall has said “scared me more than the nasty things people screamed at us.” At her mother’s suggestion, Bridges began to pray on the way to school, which she found provided protection from the comments yelled at her on the daily walks.”
THIS SHIT WAS ONLY 58 YEARS AGO. PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS RACIST TERRORISM AND ACTS LIKE IT ARE STILL ALIVE, AND THEIR KIDS ARE IN THEIR 40′S AND 50′S.
DON’T LET RACISM APOLOGISTS GET AWAY WITH “WHY ARE YOU LIVING IN THE PAST,” BULLSHIT ARGUMENTS. WE ARE LITERALLY STILL DEALING WITH THE FAMILIES THAT FORMED HATE MOBS OVER BLACK CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL WITH WHITE KIDS.
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