Please note that these letters allegedly originated with the 2nd Bn., 503d Airborne Regiment. Those of us who never had the inclination to jump out of perfectly good airplanes would not be too surprised to find a commanding officer passing around a sample letter...

But seriously, the actual quote from the unit's commander sounds more to me like it was a newsletter of something like that. The soldiers sent it home, signed or not, and the newspapers picked them up as "individual" productions. I think they need a higher class of editors at those papers, myself.