geauxtohell
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Lincoln hand wrote letters. Very moving ones. He was a master. And he frequented the front lines, even going so far as to demean himself for the amusement of the troops.
WWII, we had thousands killed on some days, and so families got nothing more than a telegram.
This was a helicopter crash which killed five men. Five. Skip a basketball game and take the time!
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You think Abe Lincoln personally wrote well over a hundred thousand letters during the Civil War?
As a matter of fact Abe did write letters to family members... they are out there, do a "google" search and see for yourself.
No shit. I highly doubt he wrote a letter to all or even most of the fallen. Somewhere near 30,000 Union soldiers were killed in three days of fighting at Gettysburg alone.
It would have taken a lifetime to write a personal letter to every family.