This Thanksgiving, my folks dropped off a lot of things from my childhood. Hidden among lots of papers and old school projects was this letter from Staff Sargeant Rechea Sanders, a Desert Storm-era paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, NC. I was was responding to a troop pen pal letter I wrote as Fourth Grade writing exercise. In this age of email, posts and 140-character status updates, there is just something cool and out-of-time about a handwritten letter. Another piece of trivia: Sanders was only a year younger than I am now when he wrote this.
This Thanksgiving, my folks dropped off a lot of things from my childhood. Hidden among lots of papers and old school projects was this letter from Staff Sargeant Rechea Sanders, a Desert Storm-era paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, NC. I was was responding to a troop pen pal letter I wrote as Fourth Grade writing exercise. In this age of email, posts and 140-character status updates, there is just something cool and out-of-time about a handwritten letter. Another piece of trivia: Sanders was only a year younger than I am now when he wrote this.
This Thanksgiving, my folks dropped off a lot of things from my childhood. Hidden among lots of papers and old school projects was this letter from Staff Sargeant Rechea Sanders, a Desert Storm-era paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, NC. I was was responding to a troop pen pal letter I wrote as Fourth Grade writing exercise. In this age of email, posts and 140-character status updates, there is just something cool and out-of-time about a handwritten letter. Another piece of trivia: Sanders was only a year younger than I am now when he wrote this.
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