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AMERICAN SOLDIER LOST HIS WALLET 70 YEARS AGO IN AUSTRIA

AUSTRIAN GRANDSON GAVE BACK WALLET


American Flag & Austrian Flag (Source: © Ruby BIRD & Yasmina BEDDOU)
American Flag & Austrian Flag
(Source: © Ruby BIRD & Yasmina BEDDOU)
USPA NEWS - Eligio RAMOS (91 year old) has already had a full amazing life, but he never thought that what was happening to him was possible. Seventy years ago, he lost his wallet in AUSTRIA and this one is coming back to him with all the souvenirs hidden inside. Like a miracle !
A wallet lost seventy years ago in AUSTRIA by an American soldier called Eligo RAMOS, found its way back to its rightful owner in 2015. It is thanks to a doctor who discovered the item in his late grandfather's farmhouse. Josef RUCKHOFER made a statement (AFP) saying that he was renovating the house near the city of Salzburg when he stumbled across the leather wallet under a wooden plank.

As a young man the American soldier fought through western Europe in a filed artillery unit and even liberated concentration camp prisoners. However, when his unit left, in the move, he lost his wallet which was full of family photos and other sentimental items.
Seventy years later, he recieved a letter from Doctor Josef RUCKHOFER, who had inherited the farm where the wallet was left. The last one explained that he was looking for Eligio RAMOS in the whole US and when he thought finding him, sent a letter with some items in it.

The wallet is weathered but still intact. Several relatives gathered to share in this special reunion, including the ones in the numerous photos from the wallet.. Mr RAMOS declared that he would like to frame everything that was inside, all the photos and the military paperwork.
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