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Andy Carroll: War Letters Project

Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum
Independence, MO

Saturday, October 6, 2018 - 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. PDT

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Nothing tells the story of the sacrifices, challenges and experiences of soldiers at war better than their own words, through letters written to friends and family back home. To keep these stories alive and share them with future generations, Andrew Carroll, director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University, is on a nationwide tour to seek out and preserve letters from every war in U.S. history.

Carroll will be speaking at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum on Saturday, October 6. Carroll is the editor of bestselling anthologies War Letters, Behind the Lines and Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families, which inspired the Emmy-winning documentary of the same name. His play “If All the Sky Were Paper” has been performed nationwide, including at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Carroll’s program will focus on his most recent book, the critically-acclaimed My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War, which includes letters from Missouri native John “Black Jack” Pershing but also young Harry Truman, who served as an artillery captain during World War I. The program takes place 100 years to the day that Captain Truman wrote one specific letter home to his fiancée Bess discussing his service in France, and Carroll will discuss this letter in particular.

This public program is free, but RSVPs are requested.

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