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War transforms ordinary people into heroes and witnesses to history. These letters, written during humanity’s darkest hours, reveal the extraordinary courage, compassion, and hope that emerge in times of conflict.
From Lincoln’s compassionate words to grieving mothers during the Civil War to soldiers’ final letters home, from leaders grappling with momentous decisions to civilians enduring the unthinkable – these documents remind us that even in war’s chaos, the human spirit endures. They speak to our capacity for both destruction and redemption, capturing the full complexity of the human experience under extreme circumstances.
Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future.
Friends have been urging me to write to you for the sake of humanity. But I have resisted their request, because of the feeling that any letter from me would be an impertinence.
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days, perhaps tomorrow.