GrainneDhu
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Is it not possible that (depending upon position, deployment, duty status, DoD, etc- that mail for some other reason was returned undeliverable?
Usually areas in question or topics forbidden by military in the mail are simply blacked out, but there have been many times (for security reasons) that mail is opened, checked and returned to sender as undeliverable.
This is well pre-TSA and NSA days, but often times certain military positions require careful analysis of those involved in a person's life- and there are many entry positions that are 'fast tracked' to tighter security clearances. Is it possible that Fontelle unknowingly fell victim to a background check that would make such a position impossible for Mr. Harrod? Often it is not the person themself who is an issue, but someone else in their life that unknowingly presents an issue.
I would be interested to know more about Mr. Harrod's military history. Clearly he was a very intelligent man.
Although of course the conclusion that someone else was reading Fontelle's letters is a huge possiblility.
Just a thought anyway.
I suppose it is a possibility but I don't think it very likely.
At that time, Bob was living in a boarding house run by Georgia's aunt. His mail was coming to that address, not a military address.
When he wrote to Fontelle, he put his letters on the kitchen table to be mailed out with the household mail. Intercepting his mail out of the thousands of letters dumped into a single post box would have been a huge task for the military.
At that point, he hadn't even gone through basic training. He was a smart man but I doubt the military saw him as such an amazing resource that they would run a fairly massive covert operation on him.