Went to thrift stores with mom this morning. Found a Singer 500A in cabinet for 20.00 so of course it came home with me. I was cleaning her up and noticed a drawer under the cabinet that was stuck shut. Got it open and found old thread, needles, newspaper patterns, AND WHAT I THOUGHT WAS THE SADDEST THING, there were two letters, one from May 1968 and one from April 1968. The first letter started " Dear Mom and Dad, I guess you will be surprised to find out I'm in Viet Nam, if Amelia hasn't already told you." I felt so bad for this mother that kept her son's letters in her sewing machine.