Christmas letters from kids meant the world to Marine

By Lee Cataluna

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Dec 25, 2011

~~<p>Every Christmas for the last nine years, the card arrived in the mail.</p>
<p>It started in 2002, when veteran Terry Feavel wrote to the newspaper on a mission to repay an old debt. He had been a 21-year-old Marine on the front lines of the Vietnam War during the Christmas of 1965 when three little letters from Hawaii got into his hands. It bothered him that he had never written back.</p>
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Every Christmas for the last nine years, the card arrived in the mail.

It started in 2002, when veteran Terry Feavel wrote to the newspaper on a mission to repay an old debt. He had been a 21-year-old Marine on the front lines of the Vietnam War during the Christmas of 1965 when three little letters from Hawaii got into his hands. It bothered him that he had never written back. Login for more...