Dear John Letters

[paulzjoh]

Does anyone remember the country song popular during the Korean War?  "Dear
John, I've sent your saddle home"?
Paul johnson.

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From: "sagehen" <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: Dear John Letters


> >Benjamin Barrett writes:
> >I've always thought a "Dear John letter" was one from a man to a woman
> >ending a romantic relationship, and this is confirmed by the Oxford
> >Dictionary of English.
> ~~~~~~~~~~
> Surely a letter from a woman to  man.  Typically illustrated as the man in
> uniform reading the letter from the "girl he left behind."
> A. Murie