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Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

F. Schwarz — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:26:00 -0000

If you were moved by this letter, try and read Catullus' Carmen CI. It is not a love letter to his wife, but a love letter nonetheless.

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

F. Schwarz — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:26:34 -0000

If you were moved by this letter, try and read Catullus' Carmen CI. It is not a love letter to his wife, but a love letter nonetheless.

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Cicero J. Faraday — Fri, 30 May 2014 19:13:04 -0000

That was pretty deep. I'm putting a letter in with a birthday present I'm giving to a friend in a few days. While I don't plan on making any moves (which is something she understands and appreciates), I want her to know that I really care. I'm glad I came across this one. You actually have another article on letter writing I plan on reading before I begin.

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home for romance — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:14:04 -0000

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Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Cameron Sharpe — Mon, 11 May 2009 05:30:35 -0000

These are the good tips in this busy world with hectic work load and stress these is were we can get relief and work out for relationships and find our right partner to live together rest of life. Hey thats a great idea, in this busy world you can get in touch with your loved ones.

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Ja — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:05:00 -0000

I found it for a report and it gave me a good idea

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Clayton — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:40:11 -0000

Or write a love letter like a martyr:

http://www.zenit.org/articl...

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

veronica — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:21:03 -0000

hi idont know whowillread this it is a lovely feeling to have whenyou can find true love i have not yet to discribe the feeling that i have in my heart nowing that i came close to finding what itoo would like to share with some whom is ready to idmitt that being real to one self is more inportant than making excuses!!!!!!!!!!!! TRUE LOVELY YOURS veronica.sandez

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Michael Sanders — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:37:46 -0000

The YouTube link is (unfortunately) broken - hope you can find another link for this wonderful piece from Ken Burns' Civil War series.

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Aidan Rogers — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:12:52 -0000

Seriously this site freaking rocks - please don't ever stop writing :)

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Sophia — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:32:08 -0000

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Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Brandon — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:07:43 -0000

I only wish I could have read this blog before valentines day. I was at somewhat of a loss as to what to get my new girlfriend and this would have made a fantastic idea!

I used to write poetry years ago when I had a girlfriend who was interested in the world of Renaissance and it was beautiful indeed. I agree that the OMG and LOL, ROFLMAO nOOb speak of today has degraded our language into nothing more than shorthand abbreviation of the great and powerful vocabulary it used to be.

After reading this, I'm still going to write her that letter and surprise her with it, I'm sure she'll love it. Thanks for the awesome article!

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Katie — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:29:31 -0000

Thanks for the Great Advice :) I love writing love letters. This will help me out allot.

~Katie

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

ian — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:20:42 -0000

Trust me...now that this is published - all kinds of variations will be going out on Match.com. A great service not only to his country..but to a bunch of hard up online dating dudes a century later. Now that's a Patriot!

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Kate — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:28:07 -0000

fathersez-
You piqued my curiosity. Why were you writing letters home for men who's wives were back in India?

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Brett — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:31:00 -0000

@Tim-Thanks!

@Chris and Keith-The writing skills of Americans in general have sadly gone downhill. My wife is a history instructor at a community college and she can't believe some of the stuff her students turn in, or even write in emails to her. I think part of this is caused by all the texting, im-ing, and emailing we do. OMG and LOL are turning our brains to mush. I think men should get back into writing real letters on occasion. Emails are convenient, but there is something truly great about a handwritten letter.

@ Jason-You got it just right. No one knows whether we are facing death or not. I also like your comment about getting our consciousness out of the way. Very true. And thanks for the compliment.

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Keith — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:16:01 -0000

Great post and I agree with Chris Cree on the issue of writing. We have moved away from expressing our feelings as men through writing.

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Jason — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:11:00 -0000

Actually, I'd say it's more that we aren't aware of whether or not we're facing imminent death, not that we actually are not.

If you want to write like this, what you really need to do is get your conscious mind out of the way... the words to write letters full of inspiration and passion flow from elsewhere.

By the way, The Art Of Manliness is the newest of my blogs I read, and already one of my favorite... thank you.

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Sherwin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:45:24 -0000

A loving letter but it is indeed under different circumstances than most Valentines Day love letters. We aren't all facing eminent death. Nevertheless, we can learn from this.

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Chris Cree — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:37:39 -0000

I think as a culture we've fallen a long way in our ability to communicate with the written word in the last 150 years. We could all stand to read more of that kind of eloquence. Thanks for sharing it.

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Christian — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:23:31 -0000

Morbid yet inspiring

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David H. Sundwall — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:23:27 -0000

What a remarkable letter. Thanks for the inspiration.

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

fathersez — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:12:14 -0000

A really touching letter.

It's not easy to put pen on paper and write with such fervour and feelings.

There were times during my teenage days when I had to write letters on behalf of some of our neighbours to their wive's back in India. I then had to read back to them what I had written. Though these people saw their wives, say, every 5 years or so, I don't remember writing such words of love or endearment.

I am sure our fallen soldier's words were straight from deep inside his heart. Somehow this brings out the hidden Shakespeare in all of us.

Re: Write A Love Letter Like A Soldier

Tim Ramsey — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:12:18 -0000

I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.

Tim Ramsey