107: His Last Letter Home

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 40.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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It contained a much desired promise - from beyond the grave.

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0:00.0	So, will it be skiing?
0:03.0	Or Christmas markets on a city break?
0:06.0	Skiing? Or a city break?
0:09.0	Some problems are good problems to have.
0:12.0	Especially with flights this winter from 29.99 one-way
0:17.0	and package holidays from £159 per person.
0:21.0	Get the king at EasyJet.com.
0:24.0	Selected dates, holidays at all protected based on two adults for three nights,
0:28.0	restrictions and season C's apply.
0:30.0	This is the way I heard it.
0:37.0	The postman snapped the rubber band off the envelopes
0:40.0	and slid another stack of mail through the slot in the front door.
0:44.0	Ingrid heard the squeal of the tiny hinge, the chirp of tin on tin,
0:48.0	and the soft woosh as a new stack of mail landed on an old stack of mail.
0:54.0	These were the sounds she tried to ignore, the sounds that ushered in a new day of grief.
1:00.0	Hungry, mommy? Hungry now!
1:02.0	Well, that was a sound she couldn't ignore.
1:05.0	In the kitchen, Ingrid spread the peanut butter onto the toast for her two-year-old son
1:10.0	as the telephone jangled in its cradle.
1:13.0	Hello, she whispered.
1:14.0	Yes, this is she.
1:16.0	Yes, he would have been 31 in January.
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