A North Dakota woman was checking her mail when she uncovered a small piece of history: a letter postmarked June 10, 1953. Anna Moch was stunned to find the decades-old envelope addressed to members of the Gross family in Kintyre, North Dakota.
Anna immediately recognized the family name and realized the farm mentioned was just down the road.
The letter turned out to be part of a much larger story. Ben Gross had written dozens of letters home during his service, carefully saved by his family for generations.
Last fall, Ben’s brother mailed the collection back to him in Georgia, but when the envelope arrived, it was mysteriously empty.
Now, more than 70 years after they were written, the missing letters are slowly finding their way home, surfacing in mailboxes across North Dakota.