{"id":738130,"date":"2022-01-06T20:09:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/watch-world-war-ii-soldiers-long-lost-letter-delivered-to-his-widow-76-years-later\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T20:09:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:09:28","slug":"watch-world-war-ii-soldiers-long-lost-letter-delivered-to-his-widow-76-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/watch-world-war-ii-soldiers-long-lost-letter-delivered-to-his-widow-76-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: World War II soldier&#8217;s long-lost letter delivered to his widow 76 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WWII-soldiers-long-lost-letter-delivered-to-his-widow-76-years-later.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wJKu_Nutt0o\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Letter Written By WWII Soldier Arrives In Woburn 76 Years Later\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wJKu_Nutt0o?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 6 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A World War II soldier&#8217;s letter home was delivered to his widow in Massachusetts 76 years after it was mailed from Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Postal Service said John Gonsalves&#8217; letter to his mother turned up in late December at a processing and distribution facility in Pennsylvania, sparking a search for the U.S. Army sergeant&#8217;s family.\n<\/p>\n<p>Gonsalves&#8217; mother, the intended recipient of the then-22-year-old&#8217;s letter, was found to be long dead, and Gonsalves died in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The USPS was able to Angelina &#8220;Jean&#8221; Gonsalves, the sergeant&#8217;s widow, living in Woburn, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Gonsalves said receiving the 76-year-old letter and reading her late husband&#8217;s words from a time before they had even met was emotional.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love it. I love it. When I think it&#8217;s all his words, I can&#8217;t believe it. It&#8217;s wonderful. And I feel like I have him here with me, you know?&#8221; Angelina Gonsalves told WBZ-TV.<\/p>\n<p>The letter arrived with a handwritten note from USPS employees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are uncertain where this letter has been for the past seven-plus decades, but it arrived at our facility approximately six weeks ago,&#8221; the letter reads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to the age and significance to your family history &#8230; delivering this letter was of utmost importance to us.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 6 (UPI) &#8212; A World War II soldier&#8217;s letter home was delivered to his widow in Massachusetts 76 years after it was mailed from Germany. The U.S. Postal Service said John Gonsalves&#8217; letter to his mother turned up in late December at a processing and distribution facility in Pennsylvania, sparking a search for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}