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Podcast: Eye on Veterans
Episode: Christmas Spirit: Found in vintage letters from those deployed during World Wars
Description:
We’re keeping the Christmas spirit alive, by sharing incredible letters written by service members deployed long ago.The letters come to us from Andrew Carroll, Founder of The Center for American War Letters, who has archived and preserved over 200K letters- some dating back to the Revolutionary War.We discussed several pieces from the collection, including; a letter from an Army nurse, expressing her condolences to the family of a soldier she cared for at the end of the war, and who didn’t pass from combat injuries, but rather from influenza. Like the era...