In honor of the holiday, our post offices are closed and regular mail service is discontinued for the day.If you're not getting mail today, take some time to visit the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum online. Of special interest today may be the Victory Mail exhibit. It is all about how the U.S. dealt with the great volumes of mail during World War II. If you don't already know about it, the V-Mail story may surprise you.
You might also be interested in the War Letters: Lost and Found exhibit, which I discussed in an earlier blog post. Be sure to click through to the exhibit; it is fascinating with copies of the letters and the stories to go along with them.
3 comments:
I clicked on your victory mail link and found the information quite fascinating. I first learned about V-Mail in a book of fiction I read last year. I can't recall the name of the book but it was accurate in the portrayal of Vmail.
This is a good post.
happy veterans day .
Thanks for posting this. Very interesting plus I'm forwarding it to my sis in case she can use it with her students. :D
Jp in CA
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