Dear Mrs. Trueman
Author Kim Clarke pulls excerpts from correspondence the US government sent to her newly-widowed grandmother to piece together a moving and sudden narrative.
This essay first appeared in Volume 14.2.
“Mrs. Trueman” was my maternal grandmother, Virginia Trueman Smalley. She saved every piece of correspondence related to her husband’s service and combat death in World War II: personal letters from him and the men he served alongside, government telegrams, insurance policies and …
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