WWII Vet Wept After This Was Found in a Thrift Store 70 Years Later

Posted 2015-05-01 12:47 by Grunt Report with 0 comments

Bill Moore served in Europe during WWII. Like most of the American soldiers, he wrote many letters to keep in touch with his family back home.

Moore couldn’t have expected a woman to find one of his letters (almost 70 years later) in a record sleeve at a thrift store not far from where he lives in Aurora, Colorado.

“My darling, lovable, alluring, Bernadean,” the letter dated 1945 begins, according to ABC 7 News Denver. “I ran out of space, but I could have written a lot more adjectives describing you. You are so lovely, darling, that I often wonder how it is possible that you are mine. I’m really the luckiest guy in the world, you know. And you are the reason, Bernadean. Even your name sounds lovely to me.”

Moore wept when the letter was found. Bernadean Gibson would become his wife for the next 63 years, and mother to their three children.

“I was really surprised,” he told ABC 7 News Denver. “I had no way of knowing it would show up in the way it did, and it would actually reach me.”
Unfortunately, Bernadean passed away in 2010. Moore, 90, lives in an assisted care home for veterans in Aurora.

“I loved her, and she loved me,” said Moore. “That’s all I can tell you. It’s a heartache not being with her all the time.”

Watch this touching moment: