I was cleaning out the basement and found some letters and cards from boyfriends when I was 15 and 16! OMG! Yes! They had pencils and not stone tablets then!
I also found my POW bracelet. Did anyone else have one? It was a bracelet engraved with the name and rank of a POW in Viet Nam. My Navy pilot was released at the "end" of the conflict and I got to see him de-plane. I wore that bracelet for 3 years - HE WAS IMPRISONED AND MIA for 3 years. How soon we forget!