In 1944, John F. Eddington fought in World War II. He knew he had a daughter who had just been born, but he could never see her because he was sent with other soldiers to Italy and killed shortly after he got there.
However, before he died he wrote a letter to his daughter, who was named Peggy and was raised by his mother, Helen, in St. Louis. Louis, USA, a woman who never fully recovered from the loss of her husband and never remarried.
The daughter remembers: “I used to ask my mother why she did not remarry and her only comment on this topic was that she did not find the perfect man and that she would never find him again.” Peggy knew very little about her father, but it all changed one day when she got a call.
It was Donna Gregory, the woman who had found a box of American soldiers who fought in the war 10 years ago, it was full of memories from the soldiers and this remarkable woman had since made the mission of her life to find the families of fallen heroes and find them. give the objects that belonged to their relatives.
In September 2013, Peggy Eddington-Smith received her father’s Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals, as well as an emotional letter, all during a ceremony where she cried a lot, as you can imagine…
Here is the small excerpt from the letter that was published:
,, I love you so much. Mom and Dad will give you everything they can. We will always give you all the love we have. Please always be nice to your mother. You have the sweetest mother in the world. I love you with all my heart and soul, always and forever.
– Your father”
“The letter helped me find out more about who he was. He opened his heart to me, and many men do not put so many feelings in a letter. I’m just overwhelmed, I’m trying to understand what’s going on,” said Peggy Eddington-Smith excitedly.
An amazing story about the love of a father who had to wait almost 70 years to tell his daughter, whom he could never see, that he loves her!