WWII Widow Finally Finds Out What Happened to her Missing Husband

[Aristaeus]

For 60 years, Peggy Harris thought her husband was MIA during World War II. But in 2012, she discovered he was KIA... and a hero.

http://www.godvine.com/WWII-Widow-Fi...band-1629.html

[dhermann1]

This made me cry . . . a lot.

[AmateisGal]

I watched this, too, and it left me with a few questions. If it was so simple to find out just by looking at his military records, why didn't she know sooner? Ff she finally wrote to her congressman to get answers, I'm assuming she's been trying to find out all these years, and that makes me wonder WHEN the records were corrected. I guess there are just some facts that we don't know about just from the video.

But oh, how heart-wrenching it is to know that she stayed married to him for the rest of her life, though I can't help but wonder what she missed out on...another husband, children, grandchildren...

[dhermann1]

That's why they call it the fog of war.

[Spitfire]

What an amazing and touching story. Thanks for sharing.

[Story]

I watched this, too, and it left me with a few questions. If it was so simple to find out just by looking at his military records, why didn't she know sooner? Ff she finally wrote to her congressman to get answers, I'm assuming she's been trying to find out all these years, and that makes me wonder WHEN the records were corrected. I guess there are just some facts that we don't know about just from the video.

But oh, how heart-wrenching it is to know that she stayed married to him for the rest of her life, though I can't help but wonder what she missed out on...another husband, children, grandchildren...

Melissa,

If a young widow doesn't have a strong support system capable of asking the *right* questions (by requesting a DD214), it's entirely likely that her Congressman's flunkies simply checked their files to see what answer their predecessors sent to Mrs. Harris.
The records were probably there, plain as day, all along with laziness & incompetence to blame more than the 'fog of war'.

As for her enduring emotional attachment, grief counseling for widows' PTSD has made extraordinary progress in the last two-three decades. Maybe with the right help, she would have moved on - and maybe she would have been content to just love only him.

LT Billie D. Harris tribute page
http://www.354thpmfg.com/BillieDHarris_part1.html