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Bob Hope’s letters to troops is a touching reminder to thank veterans, daughter says: 'He loved those guys'
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Bob Hope, a Hollywood star and proud patriot, passed away in 2003 at age 100.
"At the height of [WWII] Bob Hope was receiving 38,000 letters a week," Martha Bolton told Fox News. "And these weren’t ordinary fan letters. These were letters written to their buddy, their pal, their dad, meaning Bob Hope. And it was just this connection that he had with the guys that went far beyond any kind of a celebrity fan connection. It was like family. They were his family... They were his closest family."
Bolton, who once wrote jokes for Hope, teamed up with his daughter Linda to write "Dear Bob: Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II," which was released earlier this year. The book chronicles personal letters, postcards, packages and more that were sent back and forth among the comic and the troops.