June 25, 1971: The Kind of Love That Reaches You
Send us a text In this letter, my dad writes from Vietnam on June 25, 1971 — and something about it stopped me. Yesterday, my mom wrote about ESP. About how she could feel him reaching for her across the world. He hadn’t received that letter yet — she’d just mailed it. But somehow, he writes back with the same intensity, like he’s answering without even knowing it. He doesn’t call it ESP. He just calls it love. But it’s there — that connection. The kind that reaches you, even from thousan...
In this letter, my dad writes from Vietnam on June 25, 1971 — and something about it stopped me.
Yesterday, my mom wrote about ESP. About how she could feel him reaching for her across the world. He hadn’t received that letter yet — she’d just mailed it. But somehow, he writes back with the same intensity, like he’s answering without even knowing it.
He doesn’t call it ESP. He just calls it love. But it’s there — that connection. The kind that reaches you, even from thousands of miles away.
This letter is full of longing and humor, but also something deeper. He talks about their upcoming first wedding anniversary and how much those early months of marriage have meant to him — how they’ve shaped his whole life. He jokes, he flirts, but then he admits that sometimes the tears still come while writing her. That the ink used to smear when he’d cry — and now, he’s just learning to hold it back a little better.
He loved her. Fully. Bravely. And he never stopped showing up for her, even from a war zone.
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