Boxes

Talk about the relevance of this and how many women had the belongings of their deceased men sent back to them. Do some research on what would have been inside, what the boxes looked like, how the women coped after, etc.

This box section is the part we do after the soldiers die and it contains other sections I have mentioned on my blog. The boxes contained belongings of our men who were no more and it was routine to send these boxes back to soldier's family. In this box would be their jacket and other items that could be recovered that they held dear to them. Soldiers would keep a box of their belongings when they were on the front and if this box was still in a reasonable condition, it would be sent back or belongings and the jacket would be moved into a new box and sent home.

This is how the box section (just the boxes) goes like this:

1. Hesitantly open the box
2. Slowly pick up the jacket inside (this will be at the top) and just hold it, smell it, embrace it. You can smell him on this so you treasure this item.
3. Put the jacket on yourself or on your shoulders
4. If you have another item such as a ring or a necklace, look at this and put it on.
5. You find a pile of letters that were sent to him. You look through them hoping that one might be addressed to you, an unsent letter. You can't find anything yet so you look through them quicker and get frustrated then you finally find an envelope addressed to you. Put all the letters down and open your envelope.
6. We do the letter section where we have our own lines we chose from real letters soldiers wrote. We start this  off by one person saying "Dear Vivian" then we all say our names. We close this similarly by saying "love from Jacob" and we all said our men's names.
7. The men came back on and took off our boxes, we were left with the jackets and the waltz section begins.