![]() Being “broad-minded,” however, her new partner wouldn’t object to her still writing Ahmed once in a while.ĭid “Mrs. Historians have seemingly accepted at face value a handful of oft-cited Dear Johns, like the note received by one GI, “Ahmed S.”, in which his ex- informed him she’d taken up with a sailor in his absence. And bona fide specimens are even harder to find in the archives than in secondary literature. Strikingly, though, this totem of male emotional injury figures almost nowhere in studies of wartime intimacy. Since GIs coined the phrase during World War II, the Dear John has been a staple of US military lore and popular culture alike. It announces that the sender has replaced the recipient with a new love interest: the anguish of abandonment compounded with the trauma of betrayal. A Dear John doesn’t just sever an unwanted romantic connection. ![]() Consult any dictionary of slang and you’ll find a definition something like this: a letter sent to a man (usually in uniform) by his girlfriend, fiancée or wife announcing the end of their relationship. ![]()
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