Man Discovers Long Lost Letter He Wrote To His Wife During WWII | HuffPost Life

Poignant Moment Man Finds Long Lost Love Letter He Wrote To His Wife During WWII

Poorna Bell— The Huffington Post UK

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When Ilene Ortiz bought an old album from a thrift store, she wasn't expecting to come across a love letter tucked inside its sleeve.

Upon further discovery she realised this was no ordinary letter, but was dated 1945 and was from a young soldier to his girlfriend in Kansas, wondering if he would live through the war to see her again.

Ortiz was so moved by the words in the letter that she contacted a local news station 7News, to try and find the author.

They found him - Bill Moore - and he returned to marry his sweetheart Bernadean and have three children with them and 63 happy years of marriage. Sadly Bernadean Moore passed away five years ago, but he says: "I loved her and she loved me, it's a heartache not being with her."

Now, Moore is 90 and lives in an assisted care home. He wrote the letter when he was 21.

"My darling, lovable, alluring, Bernadean," the letter reads. "I ran out of space, but I could have written a lot more adjectives describing you. You are so lovely, darling, that I often wonder how it is possible that you are mine. I'm really the luckiest guy in the world, you know. And you are the reason, Bernadean. Even your name sounds lovely to me."

Now go get yourself a hankie.

WWII Gas Mask Drill

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All members of the public services, police and ARP workers with the general public took part in a realistic 'Gas Warning test at Brighton. Tear gas was released in one sector of the town and several members of the public who had left their masks at home were obliged to wait outside the district until the exercise was over. Service men, transport drivers and shop-keepers worked in their masks and practically the whole of Brighton's ARP personnel took part in the exercise which lasted for thirty minutes. (Planet News Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

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9th June 1941: A horde of children wearing gas masks carry out a practice evacuation of a school in Kingston, Greater London, after a canister of tear gas was discharged. (Parker/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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19th August 1941: British artist Albert Perry at work with some of his pupils during their daily one hour gas mask practice. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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2nd May 1941: The kicking showgirls of the Windmill Theatre rehearse with their gas masks firmly in place. (Keystone/Getty Images)

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27th June 1941: Children at Cosway Street School, Marylebone, London, trying on their gas masks during a gas instruction lesson. (Keystone/Getty Images)

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Teleprinter telephone operators at work during a 15-minute gasmask drill, Scotland, 24th April 1941. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 05: Tear gas was used during gas exercises at Esher. Members of the public co-operated with officials, fitting their gas masks as soon as the alarm was given.' (Planet News Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

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A Gloucestershire traffic policeman wears a sign reminding the public to wear their gas masks. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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Two neighbours chatting over a garden fence in Southend, wearing gas masks. (Fred Morley/Getty Images)

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circa 1941: A gas exercise for civilians, using tear gas, was held in Kingston-On-Thames. (Keystone/Getty Images)

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UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 01: ARP Wardens and a busker wearing gas masks during a gas exercise in a London street. (Planet News Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

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Air Raid Precautions On The British Home Front: Mother And Baby In Gas Masks, C 1941, A mother cradles her newborn baby in bed, shortly after giving birth. The mother is wearing her civilian respirator, whilst the baby is encased in a baby gas helmet, which buckles up around the baby's bottom. The mother is demonstrating how the bellows on her baby's gas mask are pumped to supply the baby with air, circa 1941. (Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer/ IWM via Getty Images)

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circa 1941: Employees and customers at a Bayswater store, London, wearing gas masks as part of a daily drill. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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circa 1940: London children wear their gas masks as they skip in the park at their temporary homes on the south coast of England. (General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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UNITED KINGDOM - FEBRUARY 01: Young Music Hall Dancer Wearing A Gas Mask And Helmet On February 1940 (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Kitchen staff at the Grosvenor House Hotel, at work during a fifteen-minute gas mask drill, Mayfair, London, circa 1940. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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23rd August 1938: A pre-war family use respirators at the Empire Pool, Wembley, London. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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29th March 1941: A warden gives directions to a mother and her two children during a World War II gas drill in Southend. (Eric Harlow/Keystone/Getty Images)

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A family wearing their gas masks to the shops during a gas drill in Richmond, Surrey, 31st May 1941. The drill involved a canister of tear gas to simulate a gas attack. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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