Stories of South Dakota form the heart of the South Dakota Humanities Council's one-of-a-kind series, featuring the words of your South Dakota friends and neighbors.

From On the Homefront: "My buddy from home and I, stationed in different places, wrote letters to the same girl, each not knowing the other was writing. One day I got letters from each of them, wrote responses, and put the letters in the wrong envelopes, mistakenly sending her letter to him and his letter to her. When I got home to Pine Ridge, I saw my buddy, who said: "Hello, Sweetheart"" - Syd Byrd