Scope and Contents Contains letters and postcards written by Jack Normand Butts to his mother, Alma, from U.S. Air Force bases across the United States from 1961 to 1967. Most of the letters deal with daily life on the base, the U.S. stock market, and wanting to know more about life back home in McPherson, Kansas. There is one letter in 1966 where Jack mentions he had finally arrived in Thailand, where most of the U.S. Air Force was stationed during the Vietnam War.The collection also contains...