After more than 80 years, love letters dating back to World War II found their way to the family of the two lovers, who defied the circumstances of the war and kept the feelings between them burning through the only means of communication that was available at the time, according to what was published by the website. cnn Love letters were found between a US Navy soldier, Claude Smith, and his wife, Mary Smith, while he was participating in World War II.

Love letters since World War II

Those letters reflected the strength of feelings between the two, along with many details of life in that era, thanks to the arrival of the letters to their daughter, Carol Bohlen, to Dottie Kearney, who lived in the family home on Staten Island in New York, after she and her husband bought it in 1995..

The duo’s daughter reads the letters

While they were doing some renovations at home, Kearney discovered the handwritten letters behind a wall and told the American “Fox News” network: “It appears that the letters fell through a crack in the attic. After reading a few, I immediately realized that I had found a treasure.”“.

AndShe added, “He called her (Dear Mary), and told her how he spent 5 cents to pamper himself and have dinner one night… She kept him alive during the war. He lived for her. It’s like the love story you read or saw in a movie and wish you had one like her.” “.

And Kearney stressed that she “opened the letters carefully,” especially that “everything was still the same, as nothing had been smeared, and nothing had changed color.”“After finding letters, Kearney decided to search for the couple’s descendants to give them to them, but she did not know how to track them down, until she sought the help of an expert and succeeded in reaching Bohlen..

Bohlen, 76, said she had no idea that her parents had saved and hid their only means of communication when her father was serving in the US Navy during World War II.

And she continued, “In the letters, he was very worried about my mother because she was not feeling well, and he called her (dear) and (honey) and he was checking on her relatives, especially my uncle, whom I did not meet because he died of tuberculosis in his twenties.”

She added: “My grandparents mentioned Willy and Ruth, and he wanted to know how they were doing. So, it brought back a lot of things that I had heard as a child. I met my grandfather but he died when I was young.”

Bohlen confirmed that her parents’ letters “confirmed what she remembers about their marriage,” adding: “They had a very good relationship. They were happy with each other and loved each other. My father was always concerned with my mother.”

She continued, “Then when I was born, he was worried about me. He was a policeman, and he was always worried and wary of everything and everyone.”