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red ink in left margin Jack thought you might like this, another in my Letters-To-My-children series. Who knows if they listen -- but you gotta try, right? Mike in black ink in left margin October 20, 1977 letterhead Box 939 circled: Sheboygan, Wisconsin 53081

Dear Naomi - I came to this town 41, 42, 43 years ago with my father. He left me with many good memories...in addition to a good heritage. I honor him for both.

  But what I wanted to share with you was the enclosed item by Hugh Hough in last Thursday's Sun Times:  "A Memorial to 6 million Jews" ...and the memory it evoked in me.
  In your later years, should you conclude the memories and heritage your father left you were not as good as they should have been, don't think too harshly of him.  It wasn't that he didn't care or didn't try.  It was

2 Just he wasn't as good a man as his father. Love, Dad