Letter to an Unknown Soldier

Week of July 24


The song ends and there is a moment of dead air on the radio. The silence is broken by a boy’s voice.

“My teacher gave us a class assignment to write an unknown soldier serving in Iraq. I think this is a cool project. My dad is already over there serving in the army. I decide to write the unknown soldier as I would write my dad.

‘Dear Unknown Soldier:

I miss you. I am praying for you and I love you.’

I hand my letter in with the rest of my classmates. My teacher was taking care of mailing the letters.

I didn’t expect anyone would get a response but three weeks later a letter came to the school addressed to me. I couldn’t believe it. My letter had found my very own dad.”

Heard on Northwest Radio, Twin Cities
Minnesota