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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Mon Feb 20, 2017, 08:00 PM Feb 2017

Gay men's love letters during WWII: secrecy, devotion

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-38932955

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Gay men's love letters during WWII: secrecy, devotion (Original Post) shenmue Feb 2017 OP

Thank you for posting. madaboutharry Feb 2017 #1

You're welcome shenmue Feb 2017 #2

This last paragraph: d_r Feb 2017 #3

madaboutharry

(40,209 posts)

1. Thank you for posting.

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Mon Feb 20, 2017, 08:11 PM

Feb 2017

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

2. You're welcome

Reply to madaboutharry (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 20, 2017, 08:46 PM

Feb 2017

d_r

(6,907 posts)

3. This last paragraph:

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Mon Feb 20, 2017, 09:14 PM

Feb 2017

Perhaps most poignantly, one of the letters contains the lines:
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are."

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