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Originally published on Mon March 18, 2013 10:38 am
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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
Good morning, I'm Steve Inskeep.
Sixty years ago, Private Bob Rodgers arrived at Fort Campbell, Kentucky for training. He wrote his wife a letter. He said all he did was, quote, "shine boots, shine boots and shine more boots and brass and more brass." Sixty years later, the Postal Service finally delivered that letter to Jean Rodgers. A postmaster says she has no idea why it took so long. But the postmaster adds the important part of it is it did get delivered.
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