A PROMISE KEPT...
TRUE LOVE STORY.
This is a very touching story of true
love at it's purest.
A woman named
Clara Gantt who had been waiting
for her husband, Army Sgt. 1st Class
Joseph Gantt since he left for the
Korean War in 1950,finally found
out he was dead after 63 years of
waiting. Before he went to war, he
told his young wife to remarry if he
didn’t return.Clara Gantt told him
she wouldn’t. She’d wait for him.
And she did, for 63 years.
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| Clara Gantt with the Corpse |
On Friday, 20th December 2013, his remains, in a flag
draped coffin, were delivered back
to Los Angeles with full military
escort.Clara, now 94, stood from her
wheelchair, tears streaming. The
pain of her loss was clearly etched
in her face.
“I told him I missed him so
much,And I expect him to come
home and he didn’t.”
Sgt. Gantt had served in World War
II and remained in the Army after
that conflict, going to Korean as a
field medic.Clara last heard from
him just before Christmas, 1950. He
was taken prisoner shortly after
that final letter.Over the years,
Clara was active in an organization
made up of the families of MIA
veterans — there are 8,000 still
from the Korean War — and she
often traveled to Washington, D.C.
to hear updates from government
officials.
She never even dated anyone else.
She wasn’t going to “be caught”
with another man while she was
waiting for her husband, Clara said.
She also covered her bedroom wall
with military memorabilia and her
husband’s medals.
Clara learned in October that her
husband’s remains had been found
and verified. Officials believe he
died in 1951.And on Friday, Joseph
and Clara were reunited.
“I am very, very proud of him. He
was a wonderful husband, an
understanding man,” she told
reporters at LAX. “I always did love
my husband, we was two of one
kind, we loved each other. And that
made our marriage complete.”
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