New trail at Mohican State Park features letters from people in the military to loved ones back home

Sign featuring a letter Edgar Rarick wrote to his wife, Doris, during World War II that is featured on the new Letters from Home Trail at Mohican Memorial State Park southeast of Mansfield. (Ohio Department of Natural Resources)The Ohio Department of Natural Resources opened its new Letters to Home Trail at Mohican Memorial State Forest southeast of Mansfield on Friday.Along the trail, visitors will see displays featuring letters written over the years by Ohio service members to their loved ones back home.Among them is a letter that Edgar Rarick, of the U.S. Army Air Corps, sent from New Guinea to his wife Doris back in Columbus during World War II."Well honey, it has been a long while since I've written, but I have been thinking about you all the time and wishing I could at least see you," the letter begins. "I am several thousand miles from you, but you still are just as close to me as ever.""They were just a very, very loving couple. And just had a great life together. And so this