I guess life just moves on, you know, ... We went quite a few years and just gave up that they would ever find them, but we never quit thinking about him and missing him.

We've just really been busy with phone calls.

It was awfully hard on my mother. She had trouble facing it, ... She was a farm girl and never hardly out this part country, but she went clear to California on a train to see what she could find out. They had services while she was out there, for her sake. They even had a plot in a soldiers' cemetery and had a stone for him there.

He was very sweet on a little girl from Wheeling, and they were planning to get married ... but he didn't make it, ... They were truly in love with each other.

I don't remember anybody in the family questioning his decision. He died doing what he wanted to do.

It would be exciting, in a sad way. We've been living with an empty feeling for so long. It would be nice to finally resolve this.