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Kathryn Reinmann 10/16/08 Earth

__My Brother Sam is Dead__ Letter

Dear Sam, Tim and I miss you terribly. We are worried sick about you, and wanted to tell you to please consider coming home. We need your help at home. With father gone, the work for me and Tim has been overbearing. We consider the fact that you are playing "soldier boy," and trying to help gain our independance, but we need you and we cannot lose another of our beloved. With all the work, Tim hasn't been able to go to school and learn what he should be learning. He should have the same chance that you had going to school. He may have also had the possibility of going to Yale, but if you do not come back home, he will never have the chance that you did until you blew your whole career off to join in this bloody war. In the tavern, we need help harvesting the crops for the fall, raising the livestock, serving the guests, making food, making up beds and rooms, and so much other things that we are numb from the nonstop hard labor that has been dwelling upon us everyday. We cannot keep doing this knowing that you can be harmed at any second. We need you, and I wish that this war never came to Redding and made you so interesting in getting involved, but, as you can see, war is bringing a lot of pain to the homes of people who have sons in this war, and especially to the people who have been serving and seeing the gruesome details that come with it.