Letter to a Soldier

Week of December 1

The Christmas Carol ends and the radio goes quiet.

There is a pause, long enough to look at the radio to see what's wrong. A samll boy's voice breaks the silence.

"My teacher announces class a project. Each of us is to write a letter to an unknown soldier in Irag. I though, that's cool, my dad is serving in the army in Irag. I'll write my unknown soldier just the way I write my dad.

"Dear Unknown Soldier: I love you. Take care of youself. I pray you'll come home soon. Danny.

"My teacher collected the letters and took care of mailing them. Nobody expected to get a reply.

But two weeks later a letter came to my school addressed to me. The handwriting looked familiar. I couldn't believe it. My letter to an unknow soldier had reached my very own dad."

Heard on Northwestern Radio
Minneaplois, Mn.