“I was always the World War II guy for my dad,” Joe Westerberg said.
Framed by dark wood features inside a Duluth home, Joe Westerberg can be found typing away on a laptop as the Star Wars movies replay in the background. It is the picture of modern-day social isolation.
“I’ve seen them enough times,” he said of the movies. “I’ll be typing and listening and just working on the letters.” Westerberg is in the final stretch as he transcribes his father’s letters home from the Second World War. Now more than 350 pages in, “I’ve got five months of letters to go,” he said. “I can do a week’s worth of letters in a day.”
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