The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love

Send us Fan Mail February 19, 1972. Four more weekends. From Vietnam, Dick writes after an average alert day. He’s tired of the job. He’s ready for it to be over. He’s thinking about taxes, blenders, and the last weekends of separation. In San Antonio, Sarah spends a slow Saturday with a sleepy, peach-eating newborn and a growing sense that their baby already has a personality. Between a war zone...

Send us Fan Mail February 15, 1972. The day after Valentine’s Day. From alert duty in Bien Hoa, Dick writes about studying, planning Miami, and counting the days. From San Antonio, Sarah manages formula changes, vaporizers, laundry, dieting, and a newborn adjusting to the world. An ordinary Tuesday. And one day closer to coming home Support the show The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love i...

Send us Fan Mail February 16, 1972. Thirty-four days remain. From Vietnam, Dick reassures Sarah about loyalty, counts down the days, and looks ahead to Miami and a new life for their family. In San Antonio, Sarah juggles visitors, strict dieting, exhaustion, and a growing concern about their newborn’s worsening reaction to formula. The countdown continues. Support the show The Allgoods: Vietnam Th...

Send us Fan Mail February 17, 1972. Three letters. One day. From Vietnam, Dick counts down in alert tours — nine remaining. Later that evening, he writes again, tired of slow mail and ready for the day when there are no more letters to write. In San Antonio, Sarah counts down differently — thirty-three lonely days, OB appointments, formula adjustments, crying babies, and weight lost on a strict di...

Send us Fan Mail February 13 and 14, 1972. Valentine’s Day arrives in the final stretch of waiting. Phone calls are planned. Diets are started. Slim-masters are rented. Bank checks are accounted for down to the penny. In these letters, Sarah writes from San Antonio about sore arms, baby formula, flowers, jealousy, and the ache of wanting her husband home. Dick writes from Vietnam about mail orders...

Send us Fan Mail February 10, 11, and 12, 1972. They’re “in the 30s now.” The countdown is no longer abstract. It’s measurable. Weekends are counted. Phone calls are planned. Flight dates are fixed. In these letters, Dick writes from Vietnam about briefings, poolside gin and tonics, and the simple ache of being homesick. Sarah writes from San Antonio about parties, exhaustion, jealousy, exercise m...

Send us Fan Mail February 7, 8, and 9, 1972. As the countdown tightens, the letters grow more specific. Dates appear. Flights are assigned. The distance becomes measurable. In this episode, three days are grouped together — not to rush the story, but to stay with it. First, Sarah writes from San Antonio, living the long days of early motherhood, desire, exhaustion, friendship, and waiting. Then, D...

Send us Fan Mail February 4, 5, and 6, 1972. As February moves forward, the pace of the letters increases. Rather than rush through them or skip days, this episode brings together three days at a time — allowing the story to continue with integrity and momentum. First, Sarah writes from San Antonio — navigating early motherhood, exhaustion, hormones, friendships, routine, and longing. Then, Dick w...

Send us Fan Mail February 1, 1972. The first day of the last full month. Dick is still in Vietnam, flying rescue helicopters. Sarah is home in San Antonio with a newborn daughter. Only one letter today — from Sarah — written in the middle of early motherhood, desire, friendship, worry, and the ordinary business of building a life while waiting for a war to end. This is how February begins Support...

Send us Fan Mail February 2, 1972. Dick writes from Vietnam after coming off alert, filling an ordinary day with meals, letters, and plans for R&R. Sarah writes from San Antonio, home with their newborn daughter, marking time through feeding schedules, soap operas, exhaustion, humor, and longing. Two letters. One ordinary day. Another step closer Support the show The Allgoods: Vietnam Through...

Send us Fan Mail February 3, 1972. Sarah writes from San Antonio with news for Dick — measurements, milestones, visitors, routines, and the early realization that their daughter is already growing fast. Dick writes from Vietnam after a day on alert, sharing small pieces of base life, gossip from home, and his constant pull toward his wife and daughter. Two letters. One ordinary day. A family learn...

Send us Fan Mail January 31, 1972. The last day of the month. These are the final letters of January. Dick writes from Vietnam after receiving a stack of delayed mail, marking another month off his calendar. Sarah writes from home with a three-week-old baby, marking the same day through routine, weather, visitors, and the small details of daily life with a newborn. Two letters. One date. Both focu...

Send us Fan Mail January 30, 1972. Two letters written on a Sunday at the end of a long month. Sarah writes from home with a three-week-old baby, moving through loneliness, humor, exhaustion, money, and desire — marking time as January slips away. Dick writes from Vietnam, filling the hours, watching the calendar, and thinking about the wife and daughter waiting for him. Together, these letters sh...

Send us Fan Mail January 28, 1972. Two letters written on the same day. Sarah writes from home, immersed in newborn care, errands, budgeting, and tentative steps back into the world — all with a baby in her arms. Dick writes from Vietnam, missing mail, passing time with friends, and thinking about the wife and daughter waiting for him. Together, these letters show what it looks like to build a fam...

Send us Fan Mail January 29, 1972. Two letters, written from opposite sides of the world. Sarah writes from home with a newborn, counting the days until her husband returns, talking candidly about exhaustion, intimacy, birth control, and the physical realities of becoming a family. Dick writes from Vietnam, rereading letters, watching the mail, and focusing on the practical details — finances, sav...

Send us Fan Mail Three letters written on the same day. Dick writes from Vietnam, thinking about his wife and a baby girl he has yet to meet. Sarah writes twice — once in the early morning hours after a feeding, and again at night, exhausted and full of love — narrating newborn life in real time. Together, these letters capture a family forming across distance: a father loving from afar, a mother...

Send us Fan Mail By late January 1972, Dick is still in Vietnam — now stationed in Saigon at Tân Sơn Nhất — writing home as both a husband and a father. His daughter has been born, but he has yet to hold her. These two letters, written on January 25 and 26, capture the tenderness, longing, humor, and quiet ache of a man learning to be a father from across the world, counting down the days until he...

Send us Fan Mail By late January 1972, Sarah is home alone with a newborn daughter, writing daily to her husband still in Vietnam. These letters from January 25 and 26 capture the texture of early motherhood — exhaustion, humor, vigilance, intimacy, and joy — as Sarah builds a life for their child while holding her marriage together one letter at a time Support the show The Allgoods: Vietnam Throu...

Send us Fan Mail As Dick Allgood moves into the final stretch of his deployment, his letters begin to shorten and compress — full of longing, routine, and quiet anticipation. Across three days in January 1972, we hear a man counting the days, holding his family together from a war zone, and slowly beginning to adjust to life as a father he can’t yet hold his daughter. Support the show The Allgoods...

Send us Fan Mail In these letters from January 22 through 24, 1972, Sarah Allgood writes from San Antonio as a brand-new mother, learning in real time how to care for her newborn daughter while waiting for her husband to come home from Vietnam. These are not polished reflections — they are raw, funny, exhausted, loving dispatches from the middle of early motherhood. Support the show The Allgoods:...

Send us Fan Mail On January 21, 1972, Sarah and Dick Allgood write to each other from two different worlds — one from home with their newborn daughter, and one from Vietnam, counting down the days until he can finally return. These are no longer letters between two people imagining a family. They are letters from two parents holding one together — across a war. Support the show The Allgoods: Vietn...

Send us Fan Mail In the days after his wife is alone with their newborn for the first time, Dick writes three letters from Vietnam — affectionate, practical, protective, and steadily counting the days until he comes home. Read together, these letters show a man already turning his life back toward his family: managing money, planning the move, worrying about recovery, thinking about friends, and h...

Send us Fan Mail In the days after her mother leaves and she is alone with her newborn for the first time, Sarah writes three letters to Dick — tender, anxious, practical, funny, and deeply in love. Read together, these letters capture a young mother learning how to manage on her own: grief at separation, the loneliness of the first days, the discipline of routine, the fierce focus on her baby, an...

Send us Fan Mail In the days just after her daughter’s birth, Sarah writes four letters to Dick — candid, funny, hormonal, exhausted, practical, and deeply loving. Read together, these letters capture early motherhood in real time: physical recovery, desire returning, emotional swings, boundary-setting, and the steady work of holding a family together while her husband remains in Vietnam. Support...

Send us Fan Mail In the days following his daughter’s birth, Dick writes three letters from Vietnam — steady, protective, and deeply anchored in love. Read together, these letters show a father fully formed: reassuring his wife, responding to fear and exhaustion, and counting the days until he comes home to his family for good. Support the show The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love is a p...