“Love and kisses, Your son Johnny. I’ll be seeing you soon, I hope.” A letter sent from a WWII soldier to his mother was lost for 76 years, but showed up at a U.S. Postal Service facility around the holidays. It was delivered to the man's widow.
WOBURN, Mass. — A letter sent from a U.S. soldier stationed in Germany to his mother in Massachusetts has been delivered 76 years after it was sent.
Army Sgt. John Gonsalves, 22 at the time, wrote to his mother in Woburn in December 1945 after the official end of WWII,The letter would sit unopened for more than 75 years before being found in a U.S. Postal Service distribution facility in Pittsburgh. “Dear, Mom. Received another letter from you today and was happy to hear that everything is okay,” the letter reads. “As for myself, I’m fine and getting along okay. But as far as the food it’s pretty lousy most of the time.”ADVERTISEMENT
Gonsalves died in 2015. His mother has died as well. But the USPS found an address for his widow, Angelina, whom the soldier met five years after he sent the letter. Alongside the decades-old mail, USPS employees also sent a letter of their own, saying “delivering this letter was of utmost importance to us.”
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