Ping!
A timeless letter. It sounds like the soldier was going to get the ancient equivalent of what we moderns call a “Dear John” letter. He’d had no meaningful communication from back home.
Age old story of men far from home, pining for it, and wishing for news from friends or loved ones.
Little different now with email, videoconference, and the Internet.
I wrote tons of letters when I was in, because...if you didn’t write any...you wouldn’t get any!
When that COD landed on the flight deck, everyone was probably looking at it with the same thought in mind...”Mail Call!”
I get it.
I left home in Michigan to fly hang gliders in San Diego and my parents never came to see me as I worked out my hang IV.
Stored my glider at and flew Torrey Pines.
Flew Mt. Laguna, Saboba, Elsinore Edwards and the “E”, Blossom Valley, Horse, Crystal, Little Black (early training sight), Big Black and Otay Mesa.
It would have been nice, but you got to cut your own path.
90’s
1800 years...As efficient as our local Post Office.
Usually it is mom sending the son on a guilt trip.
Nice role reversal!
In the fwiw dept, my mom wrote me every week, and her sis, my aunt Eva sent me a care package every month.
5.56mm
That letter must have been censored as it is full of holes....
Wow ... my great-great-grandfather wrote home from the Civil War with the same theme. It’s timeless.