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A Colonel's Toughest Duty: the Condolence Letter

US commanders continue 18th-century custom

By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 8, 2008 4:43 PM CST

(Newser) – American warfare has changed over hundreds of years, but one tradition that remains is a commander’s condolence letter to the family of a fallen soldier. The Wall Street Journal spends time with a lieutenant colonel in Iraq who writes his letters by hand whenever...   Read full story »

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