Letter From WWII Soldier Reaches Home
Son Thanked Parents For Birthday Gift
POSTED: 11:38 am CDT September 15, 2005
POOLE, Neb. -- More than 60 years after he sent it, the final letter
written by a soldier killed in World War II has made it home.
The letter somehow landed inside a newspaper dated 1915.
Nebraskan Gary Mathis found it after he bought a box of old newspapers
at a yard sale in Kansas. The letter's envelope had military post office
markings dated March 6, 1944.
Mathis ran an announcement and a picture of the letter in a local
newspaper, and word of mouth got to the soldier's sister.
Louise Kisling said her brother, Clinton Krotz, was an infantry soldier
in Italy during the war. He was killed in action about two months after
the date on the letter.
In the letter, Krotz thanked his parents for a wristwatch they had sent
as a birthday gift, as well as some candy and nuts.
Kisling said her only disappointment is that her parents never got to
see the letter.
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