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A soldier writes home

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Shaun Usher
Dec 17, 2022
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A soldier writes home, 1945. (Photo: Getty)

After I sent out Thursday’s festive mailbag, quite a few of you wrote to me and asked whether Lt. Col. Ralph Noonan ever made it home to his family. The answer, thankfully, is yes. Noonan, who was 34 at the time of writing, was overseas for almost four years in total, but after the war he returned to Framingham…

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