Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100808:15:40:00
>> for me, it was just writing down my feelings about james and just, i don't know, hoping some way that he'd see them, hear them. >> what happened next is what he would have wanted the family now believes. for the bottle washed up in a place facing its own difficult times. workers on the louisiana coast struggling to clean up the oil spill there, found the messages. >> all the letters inside were individually wrapped. >> reporter: letters written by a family living an ocean away, but with a sentiment that felt close to home. >> james' mother in one of her letters, she remarks about how it is ...