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  • Dispatch: 17 Oct 1917

    Dispatch: 17 Oct 1917

    Field PostcardFrance, 17 October 1917POSTMARK: 21st Battalion, Ypres SalientCENSORED: PASSED BY A.E.F. FIELD CENSOR 143 L— We go over at dawn. Our trenches hold like promises made in fear, shallow, desperate, and already broken. I keep low, but death hums overhead. If this is the end, and often it nearly is, know this: I thought

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  • Letters to a Grave’s Whisper

    Hey Dad, How’s the view from where you are? Is Jesus keeping you company, sharing stories over some cosmic equivalent of coffee? Yesterday was your birthday—eighty-one, if time even bothers to count where you are. Do you celebrate, or is that date just a faint echo of a life left behind? I wonder, sometimes, if

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