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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Letters home from soldiers


They miss their relatives, send lists of items to mail in care packages, think the locals are strange and dangerous, and wish they could get some booze from home. You guessed it, letters from Roman soldiers to home almost 1800 years ago.

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