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The Collection Battle Lines: From America's Wars



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.

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