58m | Documentary | 2021  
It doesn’t matter what branch of the United States Armed Forces you’re in; being assigned overseas can make you yearn for home…badly. Especially if you’re a young buck and it’s your first time being far away from home. Being in a combat zone on top of that can exacerbate things because now you not only miss your loved ones dearly (and everything familiar to you), but also have to worry about getting filled with bullets or blown to smithereens, and therefore not making it back home at all.
In many cases, military personnel overseas don’t have access to the usual forms of communication those back in the states do. So, printed materials may be all that some troops have access to. This can come in the form of snail mail, or a newspaper called the “Stars and Stripes.”…