Letters from War

"Letters From War" is a single by singer/songwriter Mark Schultz on his third album Stories & Songs. Inspired by Schultz' family, this Contemporary Christian / Pop song released in 2003 along with its music video and has won several awards.

For the 2016 Portuguese film, see Letters from War (film).
"Letters From War"
Single by Mark Schultz
from the album Stories & Songs
Released2003
GenrePop, CCM
Length4:15
LabelWord Records
Songwriter(s)Mark Schultz
Producer(s)Marc Dobiecki
Mark Schultz singles chronology
"He Will Carry Me"
(2003)		 "Letters From War"
(2003)		 "I Am"
(2006)

Background

Mark Schultz stated that the song was written in honor of his Great-Grandmother's sons. All 3 of the boys went to fight in World War II. Her 2 older boys came home a short time later but her youngest son was there until the end of the war.

The song itself tells of a young man going off to fight in a war. His mother writes daily, and he writes back. One day in December, she gets a letter from a fellow soldier that her son was captured by the enemy while saving him. The mother keeps writing anyway, and two years later, a black car pulls into her driveway, and she faints. Her son steps out, now a Captain. He runs to her, and tells her he's followed her orders of coming home. He has all of her letters in his hand while he's hugging her, and the video ends with the other soldiers being reunited with their families.

Music video

A music video for the song was filmed in rural Georgia in 2004. The video features Blake Michael (host of Cartoon Network's Fried Dynamite) at age 7 portraying the soldier as a young boy.

The video was directed by Marc Dobiecki.[1]

The video also won The 2003-2004 Department of Defense Visual Information Production Award for the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center (CRC).[2]

Reception

The song was the #1 song on American Armed Forces Radio in 2004 and was performed for George W. Bush during the summer of the same year.

Awards

In 2005, the song was nominated for a Dove Award for Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year at the 36th GMA Dove Awards.[3]

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References
  1. "Mark Schultz' "Letters From War" Music Video Captures Awards". Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2009-12-01.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2009-12-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. 2005 Dove Awards - 36th Annual Dove Awards on About.com; Jones, Kim
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