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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on December 21, 2013, 04:14:48 PM
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Widow, 94, receives remains of fallen husband, killed in Korean War
After 63 years of holding out hope her husband would someday return, Clara Gantt finally gets closure.
By Samantha Schaefer
December 20, 2013, 7:18 p.m.
Army Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Gantt told his wife to remarry if he didn't come back from the war. She told him no. He had a hard enough time getting her to say yes when he proposed. He was it.
In 1950, Gantt went missing during combat in the Korean War. He was presumed dead, but Clara Gantt, now 94, held out hope and never remarried.
On Friday morning on the Los Angeles International Airport tarmac, the widow stood from her wheelchair and cried as her husband's flag-draped casket arrived home. He was one of hundreds of U.S. soldiers whose remains have been turned over by the North Korean government in recent years.
"I told him I missed him so much," she said softly. "And I expect him to come home and he didn't."
/quote] http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-1221-veteran-remains-20131221,0,4280455.story#ixzz2o8pTL5zn
:bawl:
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Wow.
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Wow.
My sentiments exactly. 94 years old and finally gets her husband's remains after 63 years. :/
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Sleep will brother, you are home now. Another to stand guard at the gates of heaven.
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Sleep will brother, you are home now. Another to stand guard at the gates of heaven.
On the other hand this wonderful woman now has little to keep looking forward to . Is it possible she lived so long with hope, fought for her life often as she wanted to see her husband one day on Earth.
Bless her she has lived so far a love story for 63 years, bless her for showing us the true meaning of LOVE an Devotion at this point in time.
When the time comes for her to head on out to join her husband, she will go with a smile as Finally they will be together again. :bawl: :bawl: :bawl: