Soldier's Message in a Bottle Surfaces – 90 Years Later

A message in a bottle, which has floated on the waves of time for 90 years, has been found by French archaeologists.

The beer bottle contained a letter sent to an American soldier fighting in the First World War from his “Aunt Pete” in Oklahoma City. It was discovered by accident by archaeologists exploring a 6th and 7th century Merovingian settlement, at Messein in Lorraine.

The letter gives a jaunty, unthinkingly racist account of life in the US Midwest in July 1918, four months before the end of the war. “Its [sic] all most [sic] impossible to get help of any kind and those you do get are likely to be called any time,” Aunt Pete writes.
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