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Special Features

Share Your Stories
Do you have memories of receiving or sending mail during wartime? Have you saved war letters? Send in your stories.

Share Your Stories
Special Delivery

Special Delivery
Can you deliver? Play a military postal history game, and get the mail from the front lines to the home front.

Save Your Letters
Learn from a conservator how to take care of your own precious letters and documents at home.

A Legacy of Letters
In Your State

In Your State
What's happening with war letters in your state? Find out more about resources near you.

Censorship!
Many letters never made it home -- or were heavily censored first. Find out what was on the censors' minds, and what they did to the war letters that came across their desks.

Censorship!
The Legacy Project

The Legacy Project
Find out about the Legacy Project, Andrew Carroll's all-volunteer organization that works to honor the men and women who served America in wartime.



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