We recognize this entry may sound like another commercial to get you hooked on phone cell devices, but if the reader will read me out, you just may see where I am coming from. If you were to read a handwritten letter from Abe Lincoln, wouldn't you feel a little more close to whatever he was writing about. In those days, they had no spell checker or unlimited supply of ball point pens. What they wrote was with much time and heart felt consideration and thought. Today, if one gets a handwritten letter from you, they will feel so much better than you can recognize. A handwritten letter has so much more potential to inspire and it gives the writer a sense of closeness as well. New technology is great as even I can find the on and off buttons of devices (although with effort), but consider how you would feel if some body sent you a had written note of thanks or just say hi. In addition, we collectively may save the United States Postal Service, so it is not outsourced to China. I could be one of the few people to write checks, as even that seems I have put a little more effort in to who I am giving money to or why. In the 1960's, during Viet Nam, a family never wanted to receive a telegram, as that announced a death, but if it is just on a postcard as this one is, it is not a big deal, just letting the parents know their son has been re-stationed, but not in a fighting zone.
If I have pushed the right scan, clutch and brake buttons, I hope to show the reader some cards and letters of the past. One is from Virgil Scott when he went to the 1935 Rose Bowl; another responding about a son being born in 1947; another about one of three Nephi Jones boys all in the military during the Viet Nam war and a letter to Jaynette Jones from another Nephi gal who was looking at all of the cute young guys at Disneyland, but decided to redact her name, so you will just have to ask my Sis.
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