On Veteran’s Day 1998, Andrew Carroll made an appeal via Abigail Van Buren’s column. While compiling his bestselling “Letters of a Nation,” published in 1997, Carroll said he was drawn to wartime correspondence. His “Dear Abby” request was for veterans and their families to send him letters written during war.

Nine years and 80,000 letters later, Carroll has published three books of wartime correspondence: “War Letters,” “Behind the Lines” and “Grace Under Fire.”

I wondered what a letter enthusiast like Carroll would have to say to today’s military families about staying in touch by mail. What does he think about e-mail, for example?

(Click here to read the Veteran's Day edition of Spouse Calls for the complete interview with Andrew Carroll ...)

For more information about Carroll, his books and his projects in support of the military community, see ...

www.WarLetters.com

www.OperationHomecoming.org