Ben Bradlee, who died Tuesday following a rich life in which he led The Washington Post, was a proud World War II veteran. He recalled this story in a 1995 interview: “A guy once wrote a letter to me that started off, ‘Dear Communist,’” Bradlee said. “He impugned my patriotism and certainly impugned my war. I promptly wrote back, ‘Dear A–hole. This is what I did during the war, so don’t give me any sh–.’ It turned out that he had been in the Marine Corps during the war. We had taken his division to Bougainville and then to Saipan. We had been in some of the same battles. He wrote back, saying I wasn’t such a bad guy after all, and we started a great correspondence.”
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:47:35 +0000
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