Tag: letters

• Writing Prompt:

  Interview Someone and write a post on their responses. I am a bit rusty on interviewing. This used to be a fun hobby of mine that helped me talk to family members I didn’t know real well that served in World War II. It would take quite a bit of time to find their responses…

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  August 30, 2025

  Writing Prompt

  answers, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2046, handwriting, interviews, letters, originally, regrets

• 24 Years Later… Thoughts

  Today through the years has always been a measuring stick of sorts for me. I thought for certain I would have a finished book by the 20 year mark and that didn’t happen. Now we are at the 24 years later. Grandpa has now been gone longer than I had actual time with him. This…

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  December 12, 2023

  American Heritage, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  24 years later, childhood, experiences, Family, finished book, Grandpa, historian, history, houses, ice cream, irony, letters, overwhelming, personal, predicaments, professors, selling

• December

  The first week of Christmas has already disappeared. What happened? How is it that it’s Friday the 8th. The Christmas Program is over and tomorrow is Grandma’s Church Program. It just doesn’t seem possible for that to be the next item on the Christmas list. I do think they have moved it up a week…

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  December 8, 2023

  Bible Reflections, Family, Modern American History

  cards, choir, Christmas, Church Program, crying, emotions, Family, family mannerisms, holes, letters, life, loving, observations, Pearl Harbor, prayer, reading, School Christmas Program, stroke, writing

• Are Christmas Cards Irrelevant?

  Last year I wrote letters to my Sunday School teachers and the other couple in the class. Since at that point that’s what our class was for most of the time. Not long afterwards a floodgate arose and several came into the class closer to Christmas. People don’t give cards out like they used to.…

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  November 27, 2023

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History, Uncategorized

  boot, carpal tunnel, Christmas Cards, creating, letters, memories, sentiments, soothing

• Mystified

  Never ever in my life did I think this could happen. Usually luck runs out if you believe in luck. I don’t know how many more times I can use the word dumbfounded so I used that word for the title. Grandpa Leo has been gone for almost 24 years. I only had him in…

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  November 20, 2023

  American Heritage, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  cousins, divine delivery, dumbfounded, letters, messages, mystified, uncles

• August Letters

  Funny how I get started on something and then something even bigger comes out of it. When I originally started this topic of American Letters, different ideas came to mind. I didn’t realize how many ways I could loosely use the term letter. It can mean a text, letter or card. On a bit of…

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  August 25, 2023

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, Modern American History

  American’s, ancestor’s, card, copy, declaration of independence, letter, letters, Revolutionary War, text

• Freedoms, Passion and Emotion

  None of my writing would have been possible without Grandpa’s encouragement. I have to admit I do have a thing for guys in uniform mostly because of these photos of my Grandpa’s. Since the week before July 23rd on a whim and an accident I have continued to create 24 hour stories on Facebook. They…

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  August 13, 2023

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  Americans, dissidents, emotional, freedom, governments, Grandpa, intent, letters, prisoners of war, saftey, stories

• A Week of Observing Grandpa’s Footsteps

  Each day this past week on Facebook I shared a photo, some thoughts or information like the Operations Map. I have shared stuff before, but not quite like this on Facebook for an entire week. I finally understand the idea of the Facebook ‘Story’. The response was pretty neat to see from day to day.…

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  July 24, 2023

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  brief, each day, Family, freedom, friends, Grandpa, Leo, letters, maps, obwervations, photos, POW, stories

• Walking Through History In Letters

  Dates are always going off in my head. July 23, 1944 is one of those ‘days of infamy’ in my mind. So this year as usual dates of the letters come to mind when the dates circle round. Today Monday, 17, 2023 is on a Monday like it was in 1944 when Grandpa penciled two…

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  July 17, 2023

  American Heritage, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  1944, Family, grandparents, history, letters, love, memories, time, writing, WW2

• An American Soldier’s Post Card

  Sweetheart Just for yourself I love YOU for the things you do. For your sunny smiles and happy ways your heart that’s always True Some win their way with favors or treasures they may own But you are dear to me SWEETHEART for your Dear Self alone. Fort Leonard Wood, MO From what I have…

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  July 3, 2023

  American Heritage, Family, God’s Timing

  Fort Leonard Wood, handwritting, letters, love, postcard, WW2