Recently I read through a stack of World War II-era letters my dad sent to my mother He was in North Africa and she was in West Virginia Dad a second lieutenant in the US Army was tasked with censoring soldiers rsquo letters mdash keeping sensitive information from enemy eyes So it was rather humorous to see mdash on the outside of his letters to his wife mdash a stamp that said ldquo Censored by nd Lt John Branon rdquo Indeed he had cut out lines from his own letters Self-censoring is really a good idea for all of us [... more]