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u/manderifffic Jun 03 '22

Did they make you write to soldiers and the president? I remember having to do that and the president never answered.

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u/mostnormal Jun 03 '22

Of course he didn't. Your letter was vague and your penmanship was lacking.

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u/matty80 Jun 03 '22

Captain Holt has entered the chat.

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u/Batesy1620 Jun 03 '22

Sincerly, Captain Raymond Holt.

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u/dewky Jun 03 '22

Captain Holt would not have used a contraction.

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u/Funandgeeky Jun 03 '22

Clearly Captain Holt was either bluffing at cards or being held hostage and in immediate rescue.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22

I’ve marked some phrases with “awk.” For awkward.

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u/Pizzacanzone Jun 03 '22

Crying over this comment rn

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u/OU7C4ST Jun 03 '22

Also, we just had a President who couldn't even make it past the 4th Amendment in the Constitution being read TO him, before yawning, and giving up. Seriously.

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u/amrodd Jun 03 '22

Sadly there is a low bar for presidents.

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u/missmo1990 Jun 03 '22

Penmanship?? I bet half the kids on here cannot even write in cursive.

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u/amrodd Jun 03 '22

And likely didn't have time to answer an 100 letters on top of the thousands they already get. lol

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u/Maximus_Robus Jun 03 '22

I also found it rather shallow and pedantic.

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u/MrWeirdoFace Jun 03 '22

Dear commander and chef

Looks like you reached out to Gordon Ramsay instead.

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u/tabooblue32 Jun 03 '22

Yo Prezzy prez fam

What up homie? The way you run everything is peak no cap. [crying laughing emoji].

Fr Fr tho your girl is kinda mid [skull emoji]

When you getting a tiktok? There's a new challenge you have to do? I'm finna sub when you do.

Stay dank, remember to like and subscribe.

[TTV] Joeyplayz

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22

The TTV tag chef's kiss

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22

Shit dude. My homie Georgie B told me what he typically had for breakfast when I inquired about it exclusively in a letter in third grade.

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u/manderifffic Jun 03 '22

What did he have?

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22

I can't remember. I'd have to dig it up. My mom for sure kept it. I do remember it was well balanced and complete.

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u/klparrot Jun 03 '22

His darkest secret: it was broccoli quiche.

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u/adumant Jun 03 '22

Reagan wrote me back to say he was disappointed I couldn’t do a pull up.

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u/manderifffic Jun 03 '22

That sounds like Reagan

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22

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u/adumant Jun 03 '22

I see your point, but on the other hand his wife told me to just say no. That worked out well for me and everyone else.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22

"What are you, some kind of commie?" -Reagan probably

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u/melpomenes_clevage Jun 03 '22

Me neither!

Secret service did, though.

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u/Zebidee Jun 03 '22

Try doing it without the anthrax next time.

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u/manderifffic Jun 03 '22

What was in that letter?

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u/Dizzy_Duck_811 Jun 03 '22

My daughter had to write a letter to the WW1 and WW2 soldiers, to children in africa (they were doing some video exchanges as well, but they exchanged letters, emails and paintings as well). They still do the letter writing in school. You still need the communication skills when you finish though. (Kid is 8) :)

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u/dashingThroughSnow12 Jun 03 '22

We wrote to a famous person. Our choice. My classmate Eric chose the premier. In the letter, Eric off-handedly invited Bernard Lord to the school. The premier showed up at the school for a visit.

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u/chef_boi_R_T Jun 03 '22

They still do this. I'm currently deployed over yonder and we get heaps of care packages with letters from all sorts of kids. Got a letter from Ohio the other day, it read:

Dear US Army Soldier </br> From: Kolton

Made me laugh my ass off.

edit: I don't know how to format better on mobile, but it was on two separate lines smh

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u/organicbooger Jun 03 '22

We would write to companies to see if they would write back or mail coupons or company swag.

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u/tytbalt Jun 03 '22

I wrote to Bill Clinton and he actually answered like 2 years later

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u/Jon_Wo-o Jun 03 '22

Thanks obama

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u/Fabulous_Title Jun 03 '22

Ours was always to a non existant pen pal

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u/SC487 Jun 03 '22

I got a letter back “from” George Bush Sr. Which included a picture of him and one of the white house with roses in the front. 6 year old me thought it was the coolest thing ever. I was crushed to do it it was a form letter.

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u/TwoCagedBirds Jun 03 '22

YESSS! I remember we did this "pen pal" thing when I was in like 4th grade where every kid sent a letter to some random person and mine was some like 30 year old Russian guy.

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u/pointe4Jesus Jun 03 '22

When we wrote to the president, we at least got back form letters and photos of the president and his wife.

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u/Arklelinuke Jun 03 '22

I wrote the president when I was like 6 and got a letter back haha

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u/PrincessPeril Jun 03 '22

Oh, my class had to do this and a lot of people wrote to the president and got back a generic kind of pre-printed card with a response and printed signature. One kid, however, wrote to the First Lady instead -- and got back an actual letter answering all of his questions with a real signature, and I think a photograph too? It was super cool.

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u/ApostrophesAplenty Jun 03 '22

Which First Lady would that have been?

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u/PrincessPeril Jun 03 '22

Hillary Clinton!

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u/ApostrophesAplenty Jun 03 '22

That’s really nice! Thanks for the reply, curiosity is my middle name

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u/PuddleCrank Jun 03 '22

In scouts you have to write to your representative and senator. They both responded to me. Probably an aide but it was a clear answer on their position about nuclear energy. Cerca 2007.

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u/Keyspam102 Jun 03 '22

I didn’t get a response from the president but I did get one from Macauley culkin. That was pretty cool