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Letters from A Sailor

Series: Cover to Cover

Cover to Cover commemorates Veterans Day featuring a volume in the Day Northwest collection.

Letters from a Sailor: America at War 1917-1918
Letters from a Sailor: America at War 1917-1918

Letters from A Sailor by Daniel E. Lee contains letters between University of Idaho student Conrad Ostroot and his Moscow, Idaho family. Ostroot enlisted in the United States Navy in December 1917, just days before his twentieth birthday. The letters provide a glimpse into his life as he trains and prepares for deployment during World War I.

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