Ned CrawfordA self-educated man, limited in formal schooling to the sixth grade in a small-town Ohio public school, Ned Crawford managed to develop a terse, graceful, and humorous writing style. All his life he wrote letters. Getting my letters written was alway on his mind, and, in many ways, doing so could be considered his central life work. During the last year of World War I, Pfc. Crawford served as a communications engineer in the American Expeditionary Force in Belgium and France. Read More Read Less