Journal #38 The Origins of Valentine's Day

The origins of Valentine's Day and no one really knows how it really got it started. No one even knows what a "Valentine" is since the translation has been lost over many centuries. Since all there is speculation about what this word means and who started this tradition, I will just have to make due with the information I have to try and give readers the best possible origins of this marvelous holiday we know as Valentine's Day. Somewhere along the line in World War II there was a young private, who got sent over to Europe to fight the battle. He was a very brave soldier, would do anything for his country, and above everything else just wanted a chance to help out his country any way he could. Along with being scared out of his mind to be going away from home for the first time, and along with the fact that he was going into a war, the young private had a hot young relationship back in his hometown. The couple had been dating for as long as anyone could remember and they hoped to get married. Whenever his girlfriend heard the news of him being shipped off to another country, she refused to talk to him until the day he got back. The private was very shaken up that his girlfriend would not even talk to him, even though they would not see each other for a very long time and he had the possibility of not even returning home for them to every see each other again. So the private went into the War without even saying goodbye to his sweetheart and within a few short days of duty, his plane got shot down and he died tragically. The day before he died he mailed a letter to his girlfriend with only one line written on the paper. He wrote this following line"Will you be my Valentine?" See his last name happened to be Valentine and he asked her to marry him through that line. See was already devastated by her loss when she got the letter, and tearfully she accepted it. Ever since the day she received his letter, February 14, lovers sent their loves valentines to express their love to each other on that same day.