'Through the Lines: Letters from Home and the Front, 1917-1945'

Mississippi State University Libraries will commemorate Veterans Day [Nov. 11] with a reading of soldiers’ correspondence from World War I and II.

Free and open to all, “Through the Lines: Letters from Home and the Front, 1917-1945” takes place from 3 to 5 p.m. in the John Grisham Room on the third floor of Mitchell Memorial Library.

Read by current veterans and volunteers from MSU’s G.V. “Sonny” Montgomery Center for America’s Veterans, selected correspondence includes material from the Earl Southworth Williford Collection and the Lt. Col. Rollins Armstrong Collection, among others. For more on this event, click here.

MSU is hosting several other November events to honor current and former members of the U.S. Armed Forces. Click here for more information.