WW1 Letters home

Originally posted by Norm Cromie
Kaeman:
Your reference to the sight letters home from WW1 is a framework that applies to all wars. The importance of communication by mail can never be fully understood unless you experience time away from close family or loved ones.
The mind is a very nebulous thing and we don't have to be in physical touch with a person to sense their awareness . Their last writings hold a permanent place in our memories forever. That place can be free of all their human frailities and leave us with the best of our thoughts of the times with us fixed forever.
Karman you make note that you left school at the ninth grade but your threads on MLU show you have a deep intellectual insight and emotional understanding far beyond what you may have learned with further academic education.
I thought you might be interested in a letter that I sent to my brother that was recovered from an aircrash, as you can see noted at the top of the letter. I guess this must apply to the old saying (The mail must go through.)

Hi Norm,

For starters, thank you for your kind words ... life and direct experience is a far better educator than school, even if you don't venture out into it and see whats happening "out there". Mind you, I think "school's educating" has actually gotten better at educating, even if the education IS censored/predjudiced/biased, whatever They certainly never had field trips in my days like they do now.

BTW ... you should have seen this deep intellectual insight and emotional understanding NOT twig into even putting my shoes on properly to go out to the store today ... I forgot to take my slippers off and tried shoving my feet in my shoes. It took awhile for me to realize why I was having a hard time getting my shoe on. Geoff is still giggling about that (the bratty buggar)

Regards hard-copy hand written letters from, and to, home and loved ones ... this is a perfect thread to bring something up .... namely:

Our Troops ... some are far from home serving. Would it not be a wonderful thing for us, or some of us, to hand write letters and snail-mail them to our troops?

Does anyone know how to set this in motion of finding troops to write to and where to send letters???

I would love to write to one or a few of our own Canadian soldiers, men and/or women while they're stationed far from home, wherever they may be?

NORM ... your brother, did he ever get to read that letter from you? You didn't say. How long after you sent that letter was it recovered?

Karmen