PO Notes

From page 30 through letters FCA service members mailed to their colleagues for publication in an employee newsletter called the Grapevine.

Letters were written from all over the world, including the frontlines of historic battles such as Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Normandy. Published from 19421950, the biweekly publication also featured articles, announcements and updates about events and activities at the agency and on the homefront.

“FCA was and is like a family,” said FCA writer-editor Sally Bourrie, who drafted the script for the film.

Copies of the newsletter were mailed to every employee in the agency, including the approximately 200 men and women serving overseas, as well as those who had been temporarily relocated from Washington, DC, to Kansas City, MO, during the war.

The 22-minute video features excerpts from letters narrated by approximately two dozen current FCA employees who are also military veterans. The film includes footage from the National Archives and Library of Congress.

“The courage and selflessness of these young men and women shine through in their letters,” said FCA Board Chairman Vincent Logan in

See PO NOTES, page 32