Above: Telegram from Marv to his mother asking her to wire $25 to Stark General Hospital, Charleston, South Carolina.  The telegram is date-stamped March 23, 1944.  Three days earlier, March 19, 1944, Marv arrived at the Charleston Port of Embarkation, South Carolina, from being overseas.  Marv stayed at Stark General Hospital for about 10 days given that he arrived by train at the Army's Percy Jones General Hospital, Battle Creek, Michigan, on March 19, 1944.