70 Years Later… A World War II Vet Cries After Getting Long-Lost Gift From A Thrift Store (VIDEO)

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Bill Moore is a patriot who served our great country in Europe during World War II in the military. He wrote many letters to keep in touch with his family back home, and especially to the love of his life. He didn’t know if he would see them – any of them – ever again.

But 70 years later, he couldn’t believe it when a woman found one of his letters in a record sleeve at a thrift store not far from where he lives in Aurora, Colorado. What an incredible story!

Westminster woman recently discovered the letter, dated 1945, tucked inside an old record she bought at a thrift store. The writer could have been anywhere in the world, but it turns out, he wasn’t far away at all.

“I was really surprised,” said 90-year-old veteran Bill Moore from his assisted care facility in Aurora. “I had no way of knowing it would show up in the way it did, and it would actually reach me.”

He cried as he read the words he wrote so long ago to the woman, Bernadean Gibson, who became his wife of 63 years.

“My darling, lovable, alluring, Bernadean,” the letter begins. “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.”

via ABC 7 Denver

Incredible! What are the chances of that?

Sadly, his wife is already in Heaven. Clearly, after surviving a war together and spending 63 year years together, he misses her so much.

Share this incredible story with your loved ones – especially the veterans who sacrifice so much for us. 

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