I knew 2009 would be the year of the mail!  In honor of Memorial Day, the New York Times did a story on 1940s film star Donna Reed who kept several hundred letters she received from World War II GIs.  There is also a fascinating interactive feature that shows several of the pages from letters and a few snapshots she received.

This also reminds me, I need to get off my butt and go to the National Postal Museum (my favorite Smithsonian, FYI) to see their Victory Mail exhibit– though it will be there ’til 2010.  The YouTube video above is a compilation of VMail newsreels and worth a peek.