Letters to/from/about/inspired by:
- Feminist letters
- Enemies sharing cigarettes
- A mask maker
- Navy/submarine
- Letter to/from Hitler (who is fighting)
- Letter from a soldier who never shot anyone (like Wilfred Mott, but in WWI)
- Hat maker
- Comparisons to current conflicts
- Veteran whose friends are all dead
- A nurse who volunteered to follow a lover
- Inspired by Atonement
- Canadian nurses, nicknamed “bluebirds”
- Time travelling Viking
- Minorities (African Americans, Jews)
- Ernest Hemingway
- A kitten on the battlefield, a cigarette dog, or a pet fox
- Someone in WW2 writing to someone in WWI
- Three letters: One from a grandmother, one from a mother, one from a child, showing the different responses form different generations.
Letters in the form of:
- Videos
- Art
- Music
- Handwritten but censored
- Pantoum poem
Our favorites from the old lists:
- An ancestor of a soldier (i.e. “To My Grandson”)
- A weapons manufacture or someone making money off the war
- A suffragette/Farmerette
- A Galactic perspective- All of the planets will be discussing the illness that earth has contracted: WAR.
- A telegram boy
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