Unknown Letters

Immediately following the death of her young son, distraught and heartbroken, a woman sends a heart-wrenching letter to the only man she has ever loved, chronicling their love affair, opening with, "To you, who have never known me."

With her children evacuated and her husband at the front, Tory Pace is grudgingly sharing the family home with her irascible mother, working at the local gelatin factory - to help the war effort - and generally doing just about as well as could be expected in difficult times. Her quiet life is thrown into turmoil, however, when her prisoner-of-war husband, Donald, makes an outrageous demand for sexual gratification: He wants a dirty letter!

Before history remembered him as an Unknown Soldier, he was Leonard James Carter. In December 1941, Leonard is an eighteen-year-old rancher’s son from Klamath Falls, Oregon; a gifted football player in love with Lucille Harper and dreaming of a quiet future beside Upper Klamath Lake. Then Pearl Harbor changes everything. Determined to serve his country, Leonard enlists in the United States Marine Corps and leaves behind his family, his hometown, and the young woman he has promised to marry. Carried across the Pacific, he is transformed from an untested recruit into a battle-hardened ...