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Here's an interesting article sent by Private Weedo to the Evening Record so his friends will know he is well. 

  Remember the only news of the war came through these letters home and it made the war very close and personal to the family and the community. 

Click here to view the November 26, 1918 article which is already 15 days after The Great Wars end, but yet the letter was still posted. 

         Written by:
         Bob Meli
          July 30, 2011 

 

 

Background image of Soldiers writing back home during World War I obtained from:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2011/12/military-mail-stories-at-the-postal-museum/n