Letters from the Front.
Old paper is wrapped in folds sagged more than sixty years ago. Ink is faded,
printing color on postcards paled into significance.
Letters from the Front are still enchased in many families.
Each triangle letter has its own happy or sad story. It also happened that sometimes
the news from the front that people were safe and sound came after the terrible
official government envelopes. But wives and mothers believed: death notices came
by mistake. And they were waiting for years and decades.
Letters from the fronts of the Great Patriotic War are the documents of enormous
power. In the lines smelled of gunpowder you feel a breath of war, severe trench
roughness of everyday life, tenderness of a soldier’s heart, faith in victory.
These letters were written by my great grandfather Kuznetzov Vasilyi.
Kate Shuvaeva, Grade 11.