This week, a discussion about correspondence during World War I.

Professor Richard Loftus of Mount Mary University examines the correspondence of American Army

Private John Warns, a farmer from a German-American family near Wentworth, South Dakota.

Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for

entrepreneurs. Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run, and grow your business

with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand, marketing tools that get your

products out there integrated shipping

solutions that actually save you time from startups to scale ups online in person and on the go

shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you sign up for your one dollar a month trial at shopify

dot com slash setup so one time when i was teaching this class during the summer, after a weekend, and we had just finished covering World War I, I came to class and there was a box, a shoebox on the front desk, and it had a collection of letters from the

World War I era.

I found out that that author, the soldier, trained but never went to the Western Front,

but he had a brother who did, and his brother's name was Edward Harris. So I got a hold of the Edward Harris

correspondence from his family, and I wrote a story about him. He was from Armour, South Dakota.

Then this family, after reading that story, got in touch with me and said, we've got all of our

father and father-in-law's World War I memorabilia. We'd like to have you take a look at it.

So I went to Aberdeen and met Marvin and his wife Leona.

They had a whole garage set up with World War one end,

other war memorabilia.

And they went down in the basement of the house,

and they came up and they set a stack of correspondence

on the kitchen table that was about this high.

...