Receiving a letter from a loved one who has passed away seems like something from a dream. But for one family, mail that was delivered more than three-quarters of a century late was a reality that ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (WWTI) – A letter home from 80 years ago is serving as a window to the past. The 10th Mountain Division forged its legacy as the Army’s elite alpine warriors after dislodging German ...

Angelina Gonsalves received an unexpected, yet cherished, delivery from the US Postal Service last month -- a letter her late husband wrote to his mother while deployed overseas in 1945. The letter ...

“My Dearest Girl,” a soldier during the American Revolution wrote, “I am now in Philadelphia on my way to camp.” Little is known about the soldier, who signed his letter with the initials “J. S.” ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — A World War II letter written by a soldier to his mother has found its way back to his family after being discovered during a home renovation in Chesterfield County. The ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Vietnam Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh exchanged long-held artifacts Monday collected during the Vietnam war _ including letters written by ...

THE LETTERS OF PRIVATE WHEELER—Edited by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart —Houghton Mifflin ($3.75). Lieut. General Arthur Wellesley, one day in 1809, stood in Spain and surveyed the ragged levies sent him ...

In my early 20s, I saw a story about sending a letter to deployed soldiers. I hadn't made many friends after college, so I wrote one and sent it with cookies. In 1995, I married one of the soldiers ...