Spitball Army

Today was the day I was really supposed to get your mail, so I am concerned. Please keep writing often, won’t you Hon? I’m desperately in love with you and need you, of course, & miss you so. Our country needs you too, though, & I can wait, because it’s going to be so wonderful to have you back again, to be with me forever.

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I compiled a playlist a while back to complement a little writing project that I’ve been working on for, oh, the last 35 years or so. One of the pieces that I chose fit the mood of some of the source material incredibly well.

Eerily well, as it turns out.

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V-mail was originally based on the British “Airgraph”, and was an unusual and ingenious system for delivering mail from United States troops to home addresses during World War II. V-mail correspondence worked by photographing large amounts of censored mail reduced to thumb-nail size onto reels of microfilm, which weighed much less than the original would have.

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