[skyguy79]

Letters written between my father and mother during WWII while he was stationed overseas. They ran from early 1943 until the war ended in 1945. I had hundreds of them and read them all shortly before moving to TV, and kept select ones and discarded the rest. They were in a wooden box larger than the size of the old milk boxes they used to used for home delivery... if you remember back then!

What was really interesting about them is that when my father was deployed overseas my parents barely knew each other. Only met a couple of times. By the time the war ended and before he returned home, they were practically planning on getting married even though no proposal took place until he was back. (He had no leave where he could return to the states like our military can more readily do now) And I'm sure having me was in the back of their minds too!

There were more letters in the box including some written by a brother, his parents and my namesake that was KIA on Iowa Jima! Lots and lots of reading!