Source: Chris Matthew Sciabarra
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“The Second World War had a profound impact on my family. From countless conversations that I’d had over the years with uncles, aunts, cousins, and friends, I knew that the war experience had been brutal on so many levels, both at home and abroad. I knew that some had paid the ultimate price in key battles of that war, while others returned home to families that were changed forever. I had even formally interviewed one of my uncles for a school project that illuminated the difficulties of military service …. And yet, nothing quite prepared me for the education I’d receive upon discovering and reading scores of letters, which my mother had saved, written during the war — transporting me back to a time and place that enabled me to feel the daily trials and tribulations of a generation in ways that I could never have imagined.” (08/12/25)
https://medium.com/@cms10_7549/letters-from-world-war-ii-1-38a8b5bdc8c8