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Yorktown Monument
Yorktown, Va.
Old Point Comfort, Va.
Scene by night

Postmark: Virginia Beach, Va., Jul. 20, 1944
Address: Cleveland 20, Ohio
Message: "Hi Mom, Everything is still dandy but I sure do miss your home cooking. We're pretty busy so I don't find much time for writing."

Virginia

The roses nowhere bloom so white
As in Virginia;
The sunshine nowhere shines so bright
As in Virginia;
The birds sing nowhere quite so sweet
And nowhere hearts so lightly beat,
For Heaven and Earth both seem to meet
Down in Virginia

There is nowhere a land so fair
As in Virginia;
So full of song, so free of care,
As in Virginia;
And I believe that happy land
The Lord's prepared for mortal man
Is built exactly on the plan
Of old Virginia.

The days are never quite so long
As in Virginia;
Nor quite so filled with happy song
As in Virginia;
And when my time has come to die,
Just take me back and let me lie
Close to where the James goes rolling by
Down in Virginia