Letters From The Battlefield Exhibit Opens February 4, 2013

“Letters from the Battlefield,” an exhibit of personal correspondence between those serving in the Armed Forces to loved ones back home, will be on display February 4-25 at the Virginia War Memorial.

From tissue-thin “V-mails” from soldiers and sailors serving in Europe or the Pacific during WWII, to letters jotted in ballpoint pen in the steamy jungles of Vietnam, to e-mails sent from our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, the often emotional words express the joys, fears and loneliness of those men and women who are often far from the comforts of home.