Rod Dreher points us to a moving report by Steve Hartman of CBS about Peggy Harris of Vernon, Texas (a few miles northwest of Wichita Falls). Married just six weeks before her husband was shipped off to pilot fighter planes in World War II, the young woman waited more than sixty years for definitive word of what became of him.
Watch the first CBS video and then go to this site for the stunning followup in a small village in France.
(The widow’s congressman, Mac Thornberry, is the goat of Hartman’s piece. Perhaps he should be forgiven. After all, he is very busy warding off federal spending cuts while campaigning as a fiscal “conservative.”)
