On Feb 20, 2007, at 12:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
I do think the level of literacy for the highly educated soldier was higher than today, but that may simply be because it was a more egalitarian army than we have today. I don't believe we have to many Joshua Lawrence Chamberlains serving in Iraq.
I don't know about the now-vs-then comparison, but there are plenty of articulate letters coming from the soldiers on the front today. You can read dozens of them at <http://gocomics.typepad.com/ the_sandbox/>.
I like this one: <http://gocomics.typepad.com/the_sandbox/2007/02/ how_human_are_w.html>.
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