I would give so much if I could only lighten that sorrow for you a little

[moon_custafer]

Yesterday, the father of a friend of mine woke up to a Remembrance Day program on CBC Radio. They were reading letters written by soldiers in the First and Second World Wars.

One letter had been written in January 1945 by an unnamed officer to the fiancee of one Norlin Crawford, who had been killed in Italy some four months earlier

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[sovay]

The name of the writer was not mentioned, but I knew the story and grew up holding that hand with the missing thumb and finger. Just to be sure, though, I traced the letter to the website of the Canadian Letters and Images Project, and there it was, signed by W. W. Burnett, my dad.

That is neat.