Record numbers during Vietnam War
A “Dear John” letter is one in which a fiancee or wife tells a soldier she is finished with him, often because she has met another man.
The final months of my Vietnam tour I was Charlie Troop 1/9th mail clerk. While performing those duties I recall delivering at least two “Dear John” letters; I’m sure there were many more…
Not many more, plenty more! It was the scourge of the war. It was the non-combatant wound that was hard to heal!
Dennis, I take it you are referring to a personal experience…
Yep! It was never going to happen to me .Not my girl, she was different. Yep! I laugh now, Didn’t then.
I can remember a couple of guy’s in my outfit receiving a dear John..pretty sad…