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American Experience | War Letters | PBS

Duration: 52:16 (Full Program)
Program: War Letters: American Experience #1401
Broadcast Date: May. 30, 2011

Based on newly discovered personal correspondence from the Revolutionary War to the Gulf War, War Letters brings to life vivid eyewitness accounts of famous battles, intimate declarations of love and longing, poignant letters penned just before the writer was killed, and heartbreaking "Dear John" letters from home.

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Post Date: June 1, 2011