This site is based on one soldier's WWII letters to and from the home front.
The series chronicles a two and one half year stint in the United States Army,
experiences in England, Normandy, and most of the European Theater.
It spotlights this soldier's role in the biggest conflict in history before or since.
As I glean the words and phrases, I will never quite get over the fact they exist
at all. In a time in history when there was nothing but confusion, uncertainty
and chaos, to bring pieces of mail across the country and not to have pitched
them into the trash emphasizes one soldier's affection for the home front.
That soldier is my husband of 45 years, Arthur Pranger.
Rose Pranger
Covington, KY
About The Blue Cord String
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Many of the letters from 1943 were strung together on what
looked like a piece of blue cord string. It seemed then that Mary Pranger, Art's mother, was going to use this file system
throughout the war, but subsequent writings disproved this theory.
We, however, are going to pick up where Mary left off
and use her bit of string to hold our letters together, and navigate you through our Letter Archive.
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