Start Here — All 30 Letters in Order

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Thirty Letters to the Soldier I Was

A man writes to the soldier he was between 2012 and 2018 — from basic training to the food pantry winter to the first car to the museum on the Mall. Start at Letter 01.

READ IN ORDER — 30 LETTERS

Letter 01Before the Uniform
Letter 02The Paperwork Summer
Letter 03What the Library Gave You
Letter 04January 20, 2012
Letter 05The Sapper (not yet published)
Letter 06The Green Beret in the Platoon (not yet published)
Letter 07No Mail (not yet published)
Letter 08The Pool Table (not yet published)
Letter 09The Graduation Nobody Came To (not yet published)
Letter 10Red Lobster (not yet published)
Letter 11Back to Walmart (not yet published)
Letter 12The Car Polish Winter (not yet published)
Letter 13The Food Pantry (not yet published)
Letter 14What the Reserves Actually Were (not yet published)
Letter 15$7.50 (not yet published)
Letter 16The Workforce Development Class (not yet published)
Letter 17The Xerox Internship (not yet published)
Letter 18$11.50 (not yet published)
Letter 19The Thirtieth Birthday (not yet published)
Letter 20The Chicken (not yet published)
Letter 21The First Car (not yet published)
Letter 22Joyce Koons Honda, Manassas (not yet published)
Letter 23What It Meant to Never Deploy (not yet published)
Letter 24November 10, 2018 (not yet published)
Letter 25The Road Trip (not yet published)
Letter 26Five Thousand Miles (not yet published)
Letter 27The Museum on the Mall (not yet published)
Letter 28What the Museum Asked (not yet published)
Letter 29The Return (not yet published)
Letter 30Dagoretti (not yet published)

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