What would you do if you found a 70-year-old love letter?
A Denver woman reunited the letter she found with the author. She found the love letter, which was penned in 1945, inside a record she bought at a thrift store. Bill Moore wrote the letter when he was 20 years old. The soldier fought in Europe with the Third Army and had been on furlough when he met his future wife, Bernadean, whom he wrote the letter to.
“I was really surprised,” Bill Moore told 7NEWS reporter Lindsay Watts. “I had no way of knowing it would show up in the way it did, and it would actually reach me.”
Read the full story originally published by 7NEWS Denver.
Topics in this story
More Stories
In 2004, USMC Cpl. Jason Lee Dunham made a decision that would save his fellow Marines.
Remembering Cheektowaga native and Army Pfc. Neil Ellis Bateman, who was killed in action in Vietnam in May 1967.
Each Memorial Day, Americans give pause to honor those who gave their lives in service. Among them is Army Staff Sgt. Keith M. Maupin.
what a good decent american you are. i look up to you with respect.they don’t make them like you anymore. i wish i had your honor. i know you miss your wife. but you will see her again.. god bless you old soldier. :) and thank you for your service. you guys made america great.