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TIL that during World War II, Gnr. Gilbert Bradley exchanged hundreds of letters with his sweetheart, known only as "G." Found after Bradley's death in 2008, the letters uncovered a forbidden love affair between two men at a time when homosexuality was illegal and a capital crime in the military.

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