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Podcast: Eye on Veterans
Episode: Vintage Valentines: Historic military love letters that rival Shakespeare
Description: Let’s talk about love! Andrew Carroll, Director of The Center for American Letters, returns with some of the most romantic words ever written, by service members fighting wars around the world.This collection of over 200K letters spans the Revolutionary War to World Wars all the way up to modern emails from our current generation.We begin with the beautiful words for a loving wife, composed on a battlefield in Virginia, during the American Civil War. Carroll continues with an intriguing love letter that was really part of a secret intelligence mission during WWII. An...