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The Center for American War Letters (CAWL) is housed in the Leatherby Libraries building at Chapman University in Orange, California.Every American conflict is represented in the collections at CAWL, including more than 40 linear feet of correspondence from World War II. [3]
Andrew Carroll (born September 27, 1969) is an American author, editor, playwright, public speaker, nonprofit executive, and historian.. Carroll is known as the editor of the New York Times best sellers Letters of a Nation, [3] Behind the Lines, and War Letters, [4] [5] which later inspired the documentary of the same name. [6]
When Andrew Carroll’s family home in Washington, DC, burned down in 1989, no one was hurt, thank God. A distant cousin, James Carroll Jordan, heard of the conflagration and called to check in ...
Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters—and One Man's Search to Find Them, published in 2005 by Scribner is a book compiled by Andrew Carroll, the editor of three New York Times bestsellers, consisting of letters written by soldiers during the wars in American history, correspondences by their civilian families, and Carroll's search to find them.
It was dated Oct. 10, 1945, nearly a year after her son, Frank, a member of Laguna Pueblo, lost his life when a Japanese ship carrying 1,781 American prisoners was torpedoed on Oct. 24, 1944, by a ...
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is a 1987 American documentary film inspired by the anthology of the same title, directed by Bill Couturié. The film's narration consists of real letters written by American soldiers, which are read by actors, including Robert De Niro and Martin Sheen .
Deadline for letters is 8 a.m. Wednesday for the Saturday Opinion page. This article originally appeared on Fremont News-Messenger: Letters to the Editor: 'Death to America' chant is wrong Show ...
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers is a 1991 American short documentary film directed by Bill Couturié. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. [1] It shows footage from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, overlaid with readings of letters from US troops fighting in each war.