"'We’ll just soldier through this, me and you,' Stevens had said in his mild North Carolina drawl as he put an arm around Scarbrough... 'I’ll be right here.'"
Lovely, sweet, sad story by @jobywarrick.bsky.social about friendship in war, and final moments revealed decades later.
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A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy’s death
I wrote about my great-uncle Foster Stevens, who was killed nine days before the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended World War I. Now we know about the man who was with him when he died.
