Michelle Feynman
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I've read the letter that he sent to somebody from his fraternity.
And he doesn't say it was sort of a recruitment-ish, like it wanted to be a recruitment letter.
But there was so much that he couldn't say.
But if you sort of read between the lines, you could see his enthusiasm and his passion for the project.
It was sort of like, I can't tell you why, but this thing is so important.
That sort of speaks to his love of country and his patriotism.
I think he thought, you know, obviously the Nazis were abhorrent and let's do everything we can to stop them.
Whether he thought, I'm lucky to have been born on this side of the ocean, I don't know.
So now my dad is at Cornell, teaching at Cornell.
Dear Oppie, it looks black from my proposed visit to California.
Cornell is all loaded up with graduate students.
There are many more than ever before and we have all we can do to handle them.
The department was therefore very reluctant to let me go for the spring semester as I was needed to help handle the load.
There is another personal reason.
My father has died and I do not want to go too far away from my mother in New York, at least for a while.
I was looking forward to visiting you at Berkeley, as you know.
I'm sorry to have to disappoint both myself and you.
I had been hoping to see many friends again, but that is the way things go.