On A Lighter Note
May 30th, 2005 |
Archive for May, 2005
WWII Letters Comfort, Six Decades Later
May 30th, 2005Living alone in a small trailer, 84-year-old Virginia Copeland said she hears the voice of her deceased husband, Bryan Copeland, through the words he wrote 60 years ago while stationed at bases in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Islands, in this memorial day portrait in the Birmingham Post-Herald. Copeland wrote of being drafted into the Army, something that seemed to make him angry. He did make it home for Thanksgiving in 1845 and settled back into his life as a postal worker at the Locust Fork Post Office.
