Source: Cathy Free, WASHINGTON POST, 1/12/22

American soldier John Gonsalves was serving in Germany in the aftermath of World War II when he wrote a letter to his mother in Massachusetts in 1945. Last month, the U.S. Postal Service finally delivered the letter to his family — 76 years late. Angelina “Jean” Gonsalves, 89, was astonished to hold the airmail envelope in her hand after her mail carrier dropped it off at her home in Woburn, Mass., just outside Boston.

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