Have you saved any love letters?

[DebraMae]

I didn't have any letters but I have saved Valentines with handwritten notes inside.

 

[Grampa Don]

I wrote so many letters to my ex husband when he was at sea .. that I knew his 8 digit personal service number off by heart... and 45 years later I can still reel it off.... and all the letters were sent to a BFPO address.. which is British Forces Post Office... because clearly when a ship is at sea somewhere in the world.. it can't be delivered to the ship itself by regular methods....

.. so the BFPO office would deliver sacks of mail to the ship about once a week sometimes longer sometimes 2 weeks.... so by the time I'd sent a letter to him.. and he'd received it.. and then sent one in return.. sometimes he sent 2... there could be as long as 3 or 4 weeks between correspondence.. not ideal when the wife is home alone with a baby.. as I was and were so many other Navy wives

I know exactly what it's like. My wife was at home with our first son. I couldn't tell her where I was going or how long it would be before I could write again. Sometimes I'd get several letters at once.

Mail call Taiwan. I'm not in the photo.

 

[Teacher Terry]

I have thrown them all away years ago.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I have a memory box with a half century of cards, letters, and photos that have great meaning to me.

I rarely add anything these days or go through it, I know the contents by heart and should really dispose of it.

The good news is that one of the major contributors, over the past half century, is still a very important part of my life and that is what’s most important to me.

 

[mrstime]

I saved every letter DH wrote me while he was overseas, until I discovered our teen age little darlings were reading them. I then burned them all! Broke my heart too have to do it but it had to be.