Autograph letter signed : "Saigon-on-Styx", to "Alicia," [1967 Feb.].

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Autograph letter signed : "Saigon-on-Styx", to "Alicia," [1967 Feb.].

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Enclosing a copy of a parody of the "be careful with our boys" letter, a form letter sent to the "Nears and Dears of young heros about to return home from a foreign clime;" saying that he does not know who wrote it; adding that "this parody is a documentation of a dark and dangerous and frustrating year. That a man can jeer at it is all to the good."

1 item (1 p.) ; 31.8 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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