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I've called these letters pages out of our national autobiography. - Andrew Carroll Quotes

I've called these letters pages out of our national autobiography.

No toy stores here. This flag represents America and makes me proud each time I see it. - Andrew Carroll Quotes

No toy stores here. This flag represents America and makes me proud each time I see it.

It draws us into their story. There is that sense of mystery, of what was that person thinking and what happened to them. - Andrew Carroll Quotes

It draws us into their story. There is that sense of mystery, of what was that person thinking and what happened to them.

I think the writing for this book is extraordinary. And that's why we call it 'Above and Beyond,' because it really is above and beyond what we expected. Writers like (Kurt) Vonnegut and Tim O'Brien waited years after their service to write their books. There's an immediacy and rawness to this book that makes it so compelling. - Andrew Carroll Quotes

I think the writing for this book is extraordinary. And that's why we call it 'Above and Beyond,' because it really is above and beyond what we expected. Writers like (Kurt) Vonnegut and Tim O'Brien waited years after their service to write their books. There's an immediacy and rawness to this book that makes it so compelling.

You get a sense that the letter-writer is in a groove, pouring out these words that give you insight to what this person is thinking. - Andrew Carroll Quotes

You get a sense that the letter-writer is in a groove, pouring out these words that give you insight to what this person is thinking.

Words

This is the historical record. These are the eyewitnesses to these events, so no one can ever say this didn't happen or it wasn't like that. This tells us it happened in a very immediate and quite graphic way. - Andrew Carroll Quotes

This is the historical record. These are the eyewitnesses to these events, so no one can ever say this didn't happen or it wasn't like that. This tells us it happened in a very immediate and quite graphic way.

When they first started doing these, ... a lot of women would kiss the envelopes with lipstick just the way they do with love letters. So as they were going through the processing machines, the lipstick would build up and it would jam the machines. So they had to do Public Service Announcements saying, 'Please don't kiss your letters!' It was called the Scarlet Scourge. - Andrew Carroll Quotes

When they first started doing these, ... a lot of women would kiss the envelopes with lipstick just the way they do with love letters. So as they were going through the processing machines, the lipstick would build up and it would jam the machines. So they had to do Public Service Announcements saying, 'Please don't kiss your letters!' It was called the Scarlet Scourge.

Women

I never get political in the book, ... It is always respectful about the military, and yet it doesn't paint war in a glamorous and glorious image. - Andrew Carroll Quotes

I never get political in the book, ... It is always respectful about the military, and yet it doesn't paint war in a glamorous and glorious image.

It breaks my heart to hear about families who delete e-mails because they don't think of them in the same way as letters, - Andrew Carroll Quotes

It breaks my heart to hear about families who delete e-mails because they don't think of them in the same way as letters,

Heart

I love them all for different reasons. - Andrew Carroll Quotes

I love them all for different reasons.

Love

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