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'Dear Abby' letter during Vietnam War changed mail call for lonely soldiers


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While serving in the Army during the Vietnam War, William David Rice – mostly known as David – noticed so many of his fellow soldiers had not received a single piece of mail.
He wanted to change that.
So Rice wrote a letter in August 1967 to Pauline Phillips’ nationally syndicated column asking readers to write to lonely soldiers.
His letter said, “Dear Abby: For Christmas I’d like to see some smiles on the faces of lots of my buddies over here. They don’t get any mail. If any of your readers (from 15 to 80) have a 5-cent stamp and time on their hands, please have them write to ‘Any Lonely Soldier’ in care of me and I’ll see that he gets it. Thanks a million, Abby.” ....

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