This is a true story recorded in the museum.
On April 24, 2014, Laura Mae Davis Burlingame, a 90-year-old woman in Indiana, heard that a museum in New Orleans was exhibiting the relics of American soldiers who died in World War II and asked her family to take her on a tour. Because when the old woman was young, her first love boyfriend, 22-year-old soldier Thomas Jones, died in World War II and never returned to her side. Burlingame wanted to see, even if it was a piece of clothing or even a photograph, as long as he could see how his life in the army had been.
As a result, when Burlingame entered the museum, something happened that surprised everyone!
Burlingame saw a diary in the window, and the owner of the diary was Thomas Jones, her first love!
Her name was clearly written on the yellowed paper, and the last words—
"Please, anyone who finds this diary, pass it on to my first love, her name is Laura Mae Davis Burlingame."
In this diary, there are photos of Burlingame when he was young.
After 70 years, when Burlingame saw the handwriting of her first love again, she burst into tears with excitement.
This diary was a gift from Burlingame before Jones went to war. In the bitter and tense battlefield, Jones will take time every day to record his mood and pin his thoughts on his girlfriend and hometown in this diary. Unfortunately, during a front-line operation in the Pacific Theater, Jones was shot by a Japanese sniper and died. Before his death, Jones wrote his last words in the diary he carried with him: "Please anyone who finds this diary, pass it on to my first love, whose name is Laura Mae Davis Burlingame." ”
Later, Jones's body and relics were sent back to his hometown in the United States, because the family was too sad to find that the diary contained Jones's last wish, and could not immediately send the diary to his first love girlfriend, but quietly put it with his living belongings. Until the museum collected and exhibited.
Seventy years apart, after getting news of her first love again, Burlingame cried and begged the museum's administrators to allow her to flip through the diary, and the administrators took out white gloves for her to wear and carefully handed the diary to her. The manager in charge said to the media who came to hear the wind: "This is unbelievable! This is the first time in decades of working in the museum that I have seen the exhibited artifacts with their names written on them, and I have asked to see the artifacts. "
Jones and Burlingame were an enviable pair in high school, Jones was the most prominent player on the basketball varsity team, and Burlingame was a beautiful cheerleader. But because the war was ruthlessly separated, Jones ended up dying on the battlefield. After Jones' death, Burlingame married Jones' best friend, who gave her the love and attention she did with Jones and accompanied her to her children and grandchildren.
Now Burlingame is nearly 90 years old, and has already spent nearly 70 years of her happy life, but the appearance of this diary still makes her heart's memories and thoughts of her first love boil!
Even when the museum was closing, she was still flipping through her diary and was reluctant to leave. The museum staff promised to scan the entire diary and make a delicate copy for her, so that the belated diary would return to its owner after seventy years.
With this article, I would like to pay tribute to those who believe in love