Always Sleepy

Seventy years after The Korean War ended and almost 50 years after a young soldier passed, a sister who lovingly kept her beloved brother's letters home decides it's time to share them. Knowing that younger generations are no longer learning to read cursive or handwriting and the letters are surely decaying, she entrusts the notes to a niece for photographing and transcribing. Many of Sleepy's letters home speak to the everyday realities of his 1950s small-town Texas farming family....
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Seventy years after The Korean War ended and almost 50 years after a young soldier passed, a sister who lovingly kept her beloved brother's letters home decides it's time to share them. Knowing that younger generations are no longer learning to read cursive or handwriting and the letters are surely decaying, she entrusts the notes to a niece for photographing and transcribing. Many of Sleepy's letters home speak to the everyday realities of his 1950s small-town Texas farming family. His pain at his separation from home, the victories and the losses of life itself, the unknowing of what may come, his faith, and the love he felt for his family and friends are all very much present in these letters. The letters within are a tribute to that beloved brave 20-year-old Texas boy drafted into The Korean War in 1951. It is also a tribute to United States soldiers everywhere and their loved ones who sacrifice everything for the love of family and country. As Sleepy often said, "May God bless and keep you all."