Letters to Loretta from the Radio
Shack: A True WWII Teenage Love Story
By Laura Lynn Ashworth
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Laura Lynn Ashworth Bio:
Laura Lynn Ashworth
is an award-winning copywriter and political cartoonist. While helping an
elderly family member with veterans administration paperwork, she ran across
“the letters” and instantly knew of their rarity, freshness and historical
significance. Although she received three publishing contracts within two
months of sending the letters to major publishers, Ashworth decided to publish
them herself on the advice of best-selling authors. She currently lives and
works in a northwest suburb of Chicago.
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Read the rare and recently discovered real time letters
between Sal, age 19, and Loretta, age 15, during the final
terrifying three years of World War II, 1943-1945. Both from
the Douglas Park neighborhood in Chicago, the two adolescents discuss
with humor and candor, the Navy, war, politics, hit music, life back home
and their relationship. Sal nicknamed Slabby for his movie star good
looks, deciphers code out of the Navy’s radio shack on a minesweeper in
the Pacific. Loretta monikered Duchess for her aloofness, lives with aunts
and her widowed father, while holding day jobs and enjoying an
active social life with friends. Letters to Loretta from the
Radio Shack lets you experience World War II, both in battle and
on the home front, through the eyes of adolescents in a way
that Hollywood has never portrayed.
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