Paul to His Wife and Family
From Korea; February 20, 1951

This story of survival was discovered in a wastebasket of a Chicago bank in 2001. The two pages of the letter appear to be missing at least a line of type, perhaps lost when the letter was photocopied. Likely dictated from his hospital bed, the letter has all the energy and emotion of a firsthand, battlefront account and ends with a bittersweet postscript.

Courtesy of Andrew Carroll / The Legacy Project