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Shadow
03-06-2010, 08:36 AM
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"PRESCOTT, Ariz. (March 5) -- For more than 66 years, Ruth Garmong has thought daily of her beloved Bill, the high school sweetheart she wed just before he left for World War II and died in a plane crash in Burma."

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"Because of a second tragedy, though, Garmong was never able to bury Fetterman. In 1946, his remains were unearthed along with about 40 other American war dead buried in Burma by Japanese occupiers. They were put on a plane headed to India en route to the U.S. for a stateside burial, but that aircraft crashed too and was never found."

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Kathianne
03-06-2010, 09:15 AM
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"PRESCOTT, Ariz. (March 5) -- For more than 66 years, Ruth Garmong has thought daily of her beloved Bill, the high school sweetheart she wed just before he left for World War II and died in a plane crash in Burma."

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"Because of a second tragedy, though, Garmong was never able to bury Fetterman. In 1946, his remains were unearthed along with about 40 other American war dead buried in Burma by Japanese occupiers. They were put on a plane headed to India en route to the U.S. for a stateside burial, but that aircraft crashed too and was never found."

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/a-chance-for-closure-for-one-wwii-widow/19383753?icid=main|hp-desktop|dl1|link1|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fn ation%2Farticle%2Fa-chance-for-closure-for-one-wwii-widow%2F19383753

What a wonderful story. I hope they get those remains home, soon.

Shadow
03-06-2010, 09:21 AM
I love stories like this. It's nice when someone gets the closure they have been seeking for so long! I remember reading a similar story about a jet pilot who had been missing for years and years being found in Alaska (I think)...giving that family closure also.