Article here.
The Odessa, Fla., woman was in nearby Safety Harbor last week, cleaning up some of the plastic and debris that had washed up in the flood waters from tropical storm Debby, when she came across a glass bottle with a hand-written note inside...
She took the bottle home and opened it with her family. Inside, they found a bullet casing, a candy-sized iron ball and some sand.
"Half of the letter was faded, but some of it was very clear. And one thing that was clear was the date," she said.
...The letter, addressed simply to "Lee," and the letterhead indicated it was sent from the Amphibious Training Base in Little Creek, Va.
The base — more than 1,300 kilometres from where Flament-Smith found the bottle — is still operational today, under the name Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story...
...It reads, in part: "Received your letter yesterday. Was glad to hear from you. So you got a little lit up the other day. Well, that is a everyday thing around here. They have a bar and they have pretty good beer."
But this is what caught my eye:
Flament-Smith says she could only make out parts of the letter. (Her daughter, unfamiliar with cursive handwriting, couldn't read a word of it, she said.)
I am suddenly feeling old.
That's about 3pt type size, like what the crucial instructions on spray paints and such are printed at - whereas the safety warning phrases, which are far longer and more detailed/boriing, are in 8 pt. But I bet your handwritten lettering was crisper than the printed stuff. You must have been using a 3-0 Rapidograph pen.
