Dearest Virginia: Love Letters from a Cavalry Officer in the South Pacific

“On May 29th, 1936, at the age of 27, Lloyd Hunnicutt graduated from Cavalry School in Fort Riley, Kansas, as a Second Lieutenant in the 124th Unit of the Texas Natonal Guard . . . . received his first promotion on November 18, 1940. Nineteen months later, he went to war in the South Pacific with the 112th Cavalry.”—from the Introduction

“A good old-fashioned siege of homesickness wouldn’t be so bad—but these constantly recurring twinges of emptiness that occur when something unconsciously r...