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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

The rest of the story is that my father was in a three man machine gun nest, and he left the nest for whatever reason and came back and his two buddies were blown up!

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James Goodrich's avatar

This was the letter from the wife of a friend of my father’s that served with him and was killed in action. I posted it last year on his birthday in January. It’s a little tough to read, it’s in cursive and she wrote on the front and back of the pages.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/06ecPxdd7j_RSrZD-456K0Tuw

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Jennifer Jones's avatar

It's a good letter. I still write in cursive.

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ClBart's avatar

Me too. Can’t believe that the new generation does not have the ability to do the same. It is such a pleasure to have a good pen and good paper with which to express one’s thoughts. It is really weird that people are no longer literate that way. I honestly cant understand why.

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Melanie VanTassel's avatar

CL, I have a theory to consider. The new generation has not been taught to write (and therefore read) cursive, leaving them unable to access their personal histories (ancestral letters and journals) and civic documents (declarations, covenants and constitutions). An additional part of the engineered reality to force the next generation into another level of control is their math education. Younger cashiers at points of sale are terrified of counting coins/change when I pay cash. Of course they will gladly go to digital money/cards for everyone to avoid this embarrassment. They are not being taught how to make change nor write checks at school. Did the US Department of Education eliminate cursive and cash in their core content? Will the return of local control of schools correct this? Or is it too late?

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Jennifer Jones's avatar

Do they just print?

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