This is from my mother's memory box that I have mentioned before. I have googled Pvt. James M Black, Jr with no result so I am not sure if this is the real author or not. I thought it was interesting the names of people that he mentioned and was especially interested in "Did Charley Chaplin beat the rap?" I again made Google my friend and discovered the following about Chaplin.
"The 1940s were marked with controversy for Chaplin, and his popularity declined rapidly. He was accused of communist sympathies, , and some members of the press and public were scandalized by his involvement in a paternity suit and marriages to much younger women. An FBI investigation was opened, and Chaplin was forced to leave the U.S. and settle in Switzerland." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin. Chaplin died in 1977 in Switzerland.
Of course the real message was that soldiers didn't want to hear news of the war, but rather wanted to know what was going on in the lives of their girlfriends.
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