Letters From War

Letters From War

Letters From War is a song by singer/songwriter Mark Schultz. Mark Schultz stated that the song was written in honor of his Great-Aunt's sons. All 3 of the boys went to fight the Germans in WWII. Her 2 older boys came home a short time later but her youngest son was there 'till the end of the war. The song was the #1 song on American Armed Forces Radio in 2004 and was performed for George W. Bush during the summer of the same year.

The song itself tells of a young man going off to fight in a war. His mother writes daily, and he writes back. One day in December, she gets a letter from a fellow soldier that her son was captured by the enemy while saving him. The mother keeps writing anyway, and two years later, a black car pulls into her driveway, and she faints. Her son steps out, now a Captain. He runs to her, and tells her he's home. He has all of her letters, and the video ends with the other soldiers being reunited with their families. Judging by the uniforms of the soldiers, the war mentioned is WWII.

A music video for the song was filmed in rural Georgia in 2004. The video features Blake Michael (host of Cartoon Network's Fried Dynamite) at age 7 portraying the soldier as a young boy.


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