My name is Elza Snova, a senior in Brooklyn High School, whose boy friend is serving in the Vietnam War. I was born in 1930, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My family moved to New York 5 years ago. When I was a freshman in high school I met Daniel Maynard, a junior guy who helped me find my classes at the first day. We were talking for a few months, and then we decided dating together.
Three years later, Daniel was drafted to serve in the war, at the same time he was planning to go to a law school. But he cancelled his plan and went to the war instead, when I asked for the reason he just said “well, just help the nation”. Although everyone confirmed the result that the United State would be the winner, I still worried anyway.
We wrote lots of letters to each other, all of our stories had been told by time to time. They were the things in general and the things we both were concerned. He told me that he got paid a hundred per month, sometime he wrote me a joke “Can we buy our little house by serving the war?’. I knew lots of new things from him, for example to communicating during the war they had used PRC-25, the new radio equipment in the Vietnam War at the first time in war histories. He seemed really excited about the radio he said “it is the only thing you can ask for help if you need to”. Everything was going pretty well, though we didn’t see each other for a long time. We still kept in touch and shared our love across the ocean.