1.   They know that his letters home will be read by censors, and that any indication of his whereabouts will be expunged.

2.   And we had a letter home saying something about you need to go to the local dentist or something for treatment.

3.   But they can send a letter home sending her home.

4.   Although his letters home regularly reported the number of hours he was flying, Reid seldom mentioned combat.

5.   At one point in a letter home from a U.S. Army outpost in Uzbekistan, Pvt. Giovanny Maria wrote that he would like to be a Green Beret.

6.   Degas himself wrote frequently in his letters home about black people observed in the street, black women taking care of white children.

7.   He sent a letter home to say he was gay and HIV-positive.

8.   He was a slacker but artistic, a high school dropout who wrote complex sentences in letters home from the war.

9.   His descent into mental illness was slow, becoming apparent to his family in his letters home.

10.   In letters home, many written in Yiddish, he said he was reading incessantly, but failed to mention what he was reading.