Seventy years later

Daniel Politi has a Slate article about long-lost love:

Before he was killed by a Japanese sniper in 1944, Marine Corporal Thomas “Cotton” Jones wrote that he had one “last life request”. He asked whoever found his diary to deliver it to Laura Mae Davis, his high school sweetheart. Davis didn’t get to see the diary until almost seventy years later, when she was shocked to find it on display at the National World War II Museum, reveals The Associated Press.
The ninety-year-old woman, now Laura Davis Burlingame, said she had no idea the diary even existed. The curator of the museum let her have a closer look, saying it was the first time in his seventeen years in the business that someone has found “themselves mentioned in an artifact in the museum”. The museum later scanned the diary and sent Burlingame a copy.

Rico says that's one of those 'awww' stories...