Love, Sam, featured in Winchester Star
Memorial Day 2014
Until I Write Again ... Love, Sam
Letters Home During World War II
"Sam is my personal hero. This collection of letters is a poignant look inside the mind of a young man at war, a long way from home."
- Delbert McClinton, Grammy award-winning musician
- Delbert McClinton, Grammy award-winning musician
Enlisted in 1942 at age 18 and away from home for the first time, Sam Keyes is an ordinary American on an unprecedented journey. Three years of letters written home during World War II chronicle Sam's life as a young enlistee, through his D-Day landing on Omaha Beach to his homecoming in 1945. As faithfully as he wrote home, his mother kept Sam's letters. Sam gives readers a compelling story written in the moment.
Sam Keyes shares his thoughts, hopes and dreams in letters written home:
"A letter from home is like a two-minute furlough."
"Have been in the Army five weeks today, and I feel as though I have been in a year ... but then, it only seems like yesterday when I left 39 Lloyd Street that dark morning."
"I counted up all my cash on hand tonight. It didn't take me long, because I only have 28 cents. Hope to get paid this week."
"One doesn't realize what a wonderful country we have until one is taken away from it."