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[Mother's Day Special] Mother’s Day Means More When You Don’t Know if You’ll See Her Again
05/12/25 • 9 min
On this episode of Our American Stories, Scott Jones, a regular contributor to Our American Stories and author of Growing Up Rural, shares the story of a boy named Leo and the special letters he wrote to his family during the war.
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Scott Jones, a regular contributor to Our American Stories and author of Growing Up Rural, shares the story of a boy named Leo and the special letters he wrote to his family during the war.
Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Our American Stories - [Mother's Day Special] Mother’s Day Means More When You Don’t Know if You’ll See Her Again
Transcript
And we're back with our American stories. Up next, another story from our regular contributor from Iowa, Scott Jones. Got's the author of Growing Up Rural, and today he brings us the story of a boy named Leo, and it's all about his time in the Navy and some special letters from the war that he wrote to his family. You're Scott with a story.
Speaker 2Leo enlisted in the Marine Corps in February fourth,
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