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http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/1...berated-him/cbkhMQZDqQWkahy0rUN2aI/story.html
By Sarah Schweitzer
Globe Staff
November 12, 2012
Beautiful story.
By Sarah Schweitzer
Globe Staff
November 12, 2012
Some 67 years ago, a broken, emaciated boy looked up and saw an American soldier sitting astride a tank outside the gates of Dachau, the 10th concentration camp the boy had endured during the long war.
The hazel-eyed soldier hopped down and handed the boy rations he was eating. The boy ate with his fingers before dropping to his knees and kissing the soldiers boots. A radio crackled with orders for the soldier to move on as part of the liberation effort. But first, the soldier hoisted the boy up and handed him a handkerchief decorated with a 48-star American flag.
Yesterday, clutching that flag in a velvet pouch, the boy, now an 81-year-old man of Newton, thanked the family of the soldier in person for the first time.
Beautiful story.