Nancy Lynch, author of “Vietnam Mailbag,” to speak at the Lewes Library Oct. 30

Nancy Lynch, author of "Vietnam Mailbag," will speak at the Lewes Library at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 30. Lynch will read letters from servicemen who served in Vietnam.

Vietnam vet Rick Lovekin will join her to discuss his experiences in Vietnam.

From the early 1960s through March, 1973, hundreds of thousands of men and women served in Vietnam, in an undeclared and highly controversial war.

During the peak years of that conflict, from May 1968 through December 1972, a young reporter, Lynch, relayed the hopes and fears, the joy and tears of hundreds of soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines from Delaware through the Vietnam Mailbag column she wrote in the "Wilmington Morning News."

Lynch kept all those letters and the pictures sent with many of them neatly folded in their original envelopes. Now, 40 years after she began writing her column, Lynch has written "Vietnam Mailbag: Voices From the War, 1968-1972," giving a new generation a fresh look at the first-person accounts of troops in the combat zone.

Call the library at 302-645-4633 or go to www.leweslibrary.org for more information.