He was very sweet on a little girl from Wheeling, and they were planning to get married ... but he didn't make it, ... They were truly in love with each other. |
I don't remember anybody in the family questioning his decision. He died doing what he wanted to do. |
I guess life just moves on, you know, ... We went quite a few years and just gave up that they would ever find them, but we never quit thinking about him and missing him. |
It was awfully hard on my mother. She had trouble facing it, ... She was a farm girl and never hardly out this part country, but she went clear to California on a train to see what she could find out. They had services while she was out there, for her sake. They even had a plot in a soldiers' cemetery and had a stone for him there. |
It would be exciting, in a sad way. We've been living with an empty feeling for so long. It would be nice to finally resolve this. |
We've just really been busy with phone calls. |