Second+Quarter

Shea letter (Veterans' Day)

The letter is very powerful becuase of its reality. Knowing ahead of time that the soldier writing the letter to his five year old son will die makes it harder to imagine. The letter combines ordirary and out of the ordinary statements, but in this case, they are equally as powerful based on the context of the situation, the wording not being elaborate adds to that. It's not very descriptive as it doesn't need to be it stands on it own. The man writting this did not know he would die, but may have felt it was proabable he would and chose the right words, etc.