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Man Donates Grandfather's Intolerant, Narrow-Minded WWII Letters To Local Museum

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Oct 05, 2022
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NATICK, Mass. — Visitors to the Museum of World War Two are getting a taste of what life was like back in the 1940's after Rian McMurtry donated his grandfather's congenially racist, homophobic, and sexist letters to his grandmother nearly 70 years ago.

The letters, reportedly found inside a tattered steamer trunk covered in European luggage labels, was …

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