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28 February 2019

Everybody, Everywhere, Was Writing Letters

«At Fillmore Gardens, there was a sole telephone in the basement. But everybody could write letters: weary mothers writing to faraway sons -and, now, faraway daughters-late at night after chores were done; young women scribbling on paper held to their knees while riding crowded city buses; soldiers waiting in camps and aboard ships. Everybody had stationery and pen and pencil, and everybody, everywhere, was writing letters.»

Liza Mundy, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

6 comments:

  1. As opposed to now, when everybody would be texting :)

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    1. I guess they would have been rather texting too, if they had been given the chance...

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  2. Encore les textos ce n'est que la partie immergée de l'iceberg ,le pire ce sont les personnes l’oreille scotchée à leur portable :( En lisant le texte je pense aux lettres des poilus ces soldats de la première guerre mondiale qui écrivaient à leurs familles ,il faut savoir qu'à cette époque il y avait la censure et que les courriers étaient lus avant d'être envoyer !

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    1. The censorship isn't so far away, I'm afraid.

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  3. We still have mailboxes waiting to be filled with letters.

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    1. So we still fill them with letters... don't we? ;)

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