Letters found abandoned in storage locker in Arizona tell the story of four brothers during WWII

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Hundreds of letters were found abandoned in a storage locker in Arizona. They tell the incredible story of four brothers during WWII -- from Pearl Harbor to their role in the war's dramatic end. And this podcast brings them to life: https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/letters-from-war/?utm_term=.d80befe843c5 …

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Like this letter, written the day after Pearl Harbor by the oldest brother, a Marine: "Will listen to Roosevelt's speech and hope you do the same" (that speech, of course, "a date that will live in infamy"

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And this letter, written after that same brother saw his first combat -- at the Guadalcanal campaign, the first Allied offensive in the Pacific -- and was back home getting treated for combat fatigue: "My nerves were kind of jittery" (now we'd call it PTSD)

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Or this letter, after Allies fought in freezing, wet conditions to take back the Aleutian islands: "There were no atheists in that battle" (things I learned working on this podcast: The Japanese invaded Alaska!)

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Or this one, by the youngest brother, who served as a airplane mechanic throughout the war, and became part of the unprecedented events that brought the war with Japan to an end

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