Letters Aloud: From the Front—Letters of Service and Sacrifice at Smothers Theatre

Letters Aloud has been delighting audiences with thought-provoking, relevant, hopeful, and humorous stories told through the real voices of real people via their personal correspondence. Whether hilarious or heartfelt, these letters showcase humanity’s ability to find hope, meaning, and laughter, especially when times are tough. We honor our country’s servicepeople by presenting their powerful perspectives and heartfelt thoughts via the letters to and from the people they care about. Accounts from the first days of boot camp to the grim realities of the front line will bring the battlefields of our past—and in some cases our present—to life. From a minuteman of the Revolutionary War to a medic in Afghanistan giving a firsthand account of a random act of kindness, from Sergeant Elvis Aaron Presley’s message to his obsessed fans to a heartbreaking Dear John to a soldier in Vietnam, you’ll get perspectives both private and public about the act of serving and the price of sacrifice.

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