The letters of HENRY SHERBORN LANGDON and CHRISTOPHER
LAKE were written 207 years apart, but they display
a constant and heartbreaking theme in the life of a soldier:
the pain of separation from his or her family. Henry Langdon
was a boy of ten when he wrote to his father, who was
serving in the Revolutionary War. He wrote that he had
been a "good boy" and was minding his mother, brother
and sisters. Get transcript
Cpl. Christopher Lake with daughter Emileigh Ann, 2003.