Posted on 09/15/2005 5:28:09 AM PDT by RDTF
NEBRASKA Family gets letter mailed in 1944 POOLE -- It took more than 60 years, but the final letter of a soldier killed in World War II finally made it home. Gary Mathis bought a box of old newspapers at a yard sale in Kansas, and discovered the letter inside a newspaper from 1915. The letter's envelope has military post office markings dated March 6, 1944. It was addressed to W.J. Krotz of Poole. Mr. Mathis placed an announcement and picture of the letter in the Ravenna News, hoping someone might know the family. Louise Kisling said she heard about her brother's letter through word of mouth. Clinton Krotz, an infantry soldier in Italy during the war, was killed in action on May 8, 1944. The letter was the last one he sent home.
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Gov't efficiency on display again ...
To make matters worse the letter advised the addressee to invest heavily in IBM.
Gotta love the US Postal Service.
Maybe they were on union strike or something - like our own postal delivery person who complained to her union because the management office here at my office building placed the mail boxes too low to the floor. In her words, "I am not required to bend over that far or sqat down to deliver mail".
It's almost laughable.
The same efficiency that The Former Twelfth Lady wants to bring to our (but certainly not her) health care system. Just sprinkle in a little bit of the IRS's compassion and you've got a keeper!
The USPS gets faster and faster.
Perhaps the sender simply decided against mailing the letter at the time.
Great idea for a movie or TV series.
WWII news...
The "sender" was in Italy. I presume the letter was mailed, the question is how did it in up in an old newspaper.
"The letter's envelope has military post office markings dated March 6, 1944"
I read the article to mean that the letter had indeed been mailed. Perhaps the mailman dropped it into the fold of his newspaper on one of his breaks.
It's all Bush's fault and so was World War II!
"To claim your 1 million simply respond to this notice within 60 days by calling..."
Unless the mailman was taking a break with the help of a time machine or he was a really slow reader, I find that unlikely.
From the article: "...inside a newspaper from 1915."
I have to register to read this? Boy, this better be worth it.
"a box of old newspapers"
I'm not following you.
I was in Germany from 1984-86.
While there, the base post office moved a safe and found a letter under it from a WW2 soldier to his wife.
They decided to mail it and the man and wife were still both alive and exited to read the letter.
Never register...
That's a heck of a Freudian slip, my FRiend!
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