Letter from Izzy, page 3, 1943, Sep, 11
as you left them, but in spite of that, it will look a lot different to you. This is because in youth every day, hour and minute is highly impressionable and time spent away from a familiar environment alters rapidly precon- ceived conceptions of that environment. It is then that you will discover that your true home is your own heart and body and the healthier, the stronger, the better prepared that mind and body the happier will be that true home. Do not pass up golden opportunities. Prepare yourself. Make yourself free and strong by mastering advanced learning be it engineering or medicine. Do not assert that you will have nothing but medicine. This is childish, we cannot have everything we want, rather be thankful that there is a next best thing.
In the meantime, advanced learning in any field can never bring you harm and may, remote as it sounds, be of great value in your ambitions as a doctor of medicine. I believe that now that the organized resistance of Italy has been broken the end is more clearly in sight for an early cessation of hostilities. In view of this, it becomes desir- able to pay some attention to post-war plans, your own post-war plans. I understand that in the midst of training for war it is difficult to see beyond it, but remember it will end, and soon, I hope. When it does the world is going to be a quite different place. The people will be different, ideas will be differ- ent, things will be different. In fact, when that happy day on which you are mustered out arrives and you come back to 3rd street the houses and stores may look the same
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