Here’s another holiday that brings the handwritten letter to the foreground.
Letters from soldiers are extremely valuable and cherished, especially if handwritten. These letters, written in unusual, often dangerous situations, reach out to family and loved ones offering solace and connection to the writer, and comfort to those addressed. Personal history is documented. Love is expressed. And when penned in the soldier’s hand, there’s the added touch of one’s personal identity in the handwriting.
Author Andrew Carroll has collected 100,000 war letters. In his AARP tribute for Memorial Day, he offers the final heartrending letters from 5 soldiers. Fearlessly, they all face their mortality, and express their love and final wishes to those they will soon leave behind.