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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLost during WW2, wife finally knows what happened to her husband
Her husband left to war only six weeks after being married. After he disappeared, she spent the next 68 years wondering what happened to him, and finally finds out. The amazing story of him and his legacy will have you in tears. The incredible part of this story was not that Peggy learned how he died but what she discovered afterwards.
In the tiny Normandy town of Les Ventes in France, the main road is actually named after Billie Harris. The townspeople march down the road times a year to celebrate him. Why?
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Lost during WW2, wife finally knows what happened to her husband (Original Post)
Contrary1
Mar 2014
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That made me cry. Very touching, grateful to the French for their remembrance of him. n/t
freshwest
Mar 2014
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COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)1. Beautiful story. Thank you. nt
spin
(17,493 posts)2. Thanks for posting this. (n/t)
herding cats
(19,567 posts)3. She waited her whole life for him.
I'm glad when she finally found out how he died he was a hero in that town.
CVN-68
(97 posts)4. Betty White starred in a movie based on a true story kinda like this story.
AnneD
(15,774 posts)5. Some stories....
leave you breathless.
Go Vols
(5,902 posts)6. Very Cool
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)7. Speechless.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)8. I seem to have something in my eye.
Rest easy, Lieutenant Harris.
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Skittles
(153,193 posts)10. I challenge every rightwing asshole who trashes France to watch this
Aerows
(39,961 posts)11. Here is a text account
freshwest
(53,661 posts)12. That made me cry. Very touching, grateful to the French for their remembrance of him. n/t