Soldier's Mother's Day Gift Arrives Late By 70 Years

WWII Soldier's Gift for Mom Finally Arrives 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By MARK PRATT
Published: Saturday, May 9, 2015
MILLVILLE, Mass.

DON LAMOUREUX displays a World War II-era pillow sham at a senior center in Millville, Mass., which his son purchased from an online auction site. Dominic O'Gara had mailed the elaborate pillow sham from his U.S. Army base in California to his mother in Millville in 1942. STEVEN SENNE | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This is the story of a loving tribute from a soldier preparing for war to his mother on the other side of the continent, who didn't know whether she would ever see her boy again.

The elaborate pillow sham he sent her, lost for more than 70 years, has finally come home, just in time for Mother's Day.

The sham, emblazoned with the word "Mother" and sent in 1942 by Dominic O'Gara from his Army base in California to his mother in the small Massachusetts town of Millville, was discovered last month by a town native on eBay.

The hope now is to put the sham on display in the town's senior center, just yards from the house where the O'Gara family once lived. read more here