If All The Sky Were Paper

Tucked away in attics, closets, and basements throughout this country are millions of letters written by men and women who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. There are also countless e-mails being written by active duty-troops who have been deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries around the world. These letters and e-mails are an irreplaceable record of the sacrifices made by military personnel and their families, and they need to be preserved. 

-Chapman University, War Letters Project

CAWL (the Center for American War Letters) collects and preserves war letters to continue the understanding of wartime. As part of our production, we would like to collect your war letters and send them to the University. Please bring any letters you have to a performance.  If you are unable to come in with your letter, email a picture to: annaj@centralbluejays.org

A faculty member will be set up at the entrance to assist you with the following:

1. Your name, the sender, and the recipient, and how you came into possession of this letter.

2. If you are willing to part with this letter we can send in the physical copy to the university. If you would like to keep it we will have someone ready to scan the letter and we will send in a digital copy.

Click here for more information on CAWL and their mission

 Letters we collect will also be uploaded to this website for you to see the correspondence to and from this community. Continue to check this site to see letters as they are added to their corresponding wartime. Any further questions, contact the email above.