# My Dad's Army Poetry

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dads-army-poetry/129993>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 28, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dads-army-poetry/129993 "2002-09-28T05:39:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dads-army-poetry/129993/1 "2002-09-28T05:39:31Z")

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While my father was in the Army during WWII, he collected and wrote poetry to my mother. Some of it is quite good and I would like to preserve the little book he wrote it in, but I would also like to have another book made (bound?) that I can have to look at and not damage further than the original already is: yellowed paper, blurred ink, etc…

Does anyone know of a company that will do this if I re-type the originals? And how expensive would it be?

Thanks!

Quasi

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**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dads-army-poetry/129993/2 "2002-09-28T05:48:00Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Quasimodem \*  
> \*\*While my father was in the Army during WWII, he collected and wrote poetry to my mother. Some of it is quite good and I would like to preserve the little book he wrote it in, but I would also like to have another book made (bound?) that I can have to look at and not damage further than the original already is: yellowed paper, blurred ink, etc…
> 
> Does anyone know of a company that will do this if I re-type the originals? And how expensive would it be?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Quasi \*\*

I typed “private publishing” in the Yahoo! search and came up with[this source.](http://www.modernmemoirs.com/)

I’m sure if you search the net more exhaustively you can find many others.

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**Author:** ![Kipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kipper)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dads-army-poetry/129993/3 "2002-09-28T23:39:01Z")

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And there I was thinking of the BBC comedy “Dad’s Army”, about the Home Guard in WWII.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dads-army-poetry/129993/4 "2002-09-29T11:56:29Z")

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Kinko’s does light publishing, small jobs. If you retype the originals they will print it for you on any available paper and bind it. I’m sure archival acid free paper is available.

For that matter, you can include scanned images of the original pages. You can add old photographs. You can do whatever you want.