It really hit the spot.”īarger said on his first night in China he and some other Marines went to a restaurant “and got the works: T-bone steak, fried potatoes, sliced tomatoes, ice cream and apple pie.”Īfter he had another steak, more potatoes and milk, Barger said his bill was $3,000. “Tell Joe Brady, Luke, Bob, Snider, Collins and all ‘Hello.’ Sure miss the good old Cheerwine. “How is everyone at the plant?” Barger asked in 1945, not long after the war was over. The letters found their way to the Cheerwine boss. Peeler” and mark it in care of Cheerwine Bottling in Salisbury, N.C. When they addressed their envelopes, all the men had to write was “C.A. Tatum already had served as a district governor.Īt his death in 2000, the 96-year-old Peeler was the longest serving member of anyone else in Civitan International.īeside running Cheerwine and overseeing the Yadkin Hotel for decades, Peeler had been a Salisbury mayor and councilman, a school board chairman, a longtime Catawba College trustee and a First Union Bank director for more than half a century.Įxcept for Tatum, who began his letter “Dear Clifford,” the Cheerwine employees at war usually began their missives with “Dear Mr. Both Tatum and Peeler were devoted Civitans. Tatum told Peeler he had received his Civitan Christmas card just before leaving the States and asked his brother-in-law to thank the club members for him. “Really get homesick when I see some of the names here.” “This is a beautiful section of England,” Tatum continued. He thanked Peeler with his help related to travel checks. Owing to his long service in the Army reserves, Tatum was stationed at the time in England with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Peeler also had saved a letter from his brother-in-law Dr. “But there were eight of my pals I know who didn’t see April 2 or V-J Day.
“Everyone’s heart skipped a beat or stopped.
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“One came so close you could have touched it with a 10-foot pole,” Barger told Peeler.
He also wrote about his ship’s just being missed by Japanese suicide planes. 4, 1945, Barger was writing from Tsingtao, China, having arrived there after a stint in Okinawa, Japan.īarger talked of being on an LST that listed to its port side on one trip and almost sank. Jarrett noticed, for example, two letters more than three years apart from the young Marine Barger. They are now part of a yearlong exhibit of Cheerwine artifacts and history opening at the Rowan Museum between 1 and 4 p.m. She wondered why her grandfather, who died in 2000 at the age of 96, had saved these particular letters. It contained papers, news clippings and the World War II letters, which captivated Jarrett.
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