For more than 30 years I have collected letters that interested me, including some from World War II and earlier.
Nothing can ever replace a person putting ink on paper and writing a letter.
The sender shares not only his or her thoughts but also history with the reader, and it doesn't matter how much time has passed between the writing and the reading. Sandra K. Knoedler Salem, Ohio Having long wondered what modern technology and the world's impatience would do to the old-fashioned letter, I enjoyed your article about Andrew Carroll. I have a copy of a letter that my great-granduncle wrote to the U.S. government when they lost his pension check for having served in the Civil War. He was 18 at the time. His letter tells firsthand what happened that morning, that evening and the following days.