A trove of newly unearthed wartime love letters warming hearts more than 80 years after the last stamp was licked is a snail mail reminder of the perseverance of love just in time for Valentine’s Day, according to Saskatchewan historians.
Former U.S. Air Corps private Henry Lever wrote to his wife Florence Lever in Massachusetts more than 500 times from 1943 to 1945, while he was stationed abroad during the Second World War. Military records show Lever, a clerk, was 28 when he enlisted in February 1941.
Inside the letters addressed to “Dearest Florence,” Lever shares mundane details and moments of joy,
