A nice ,feel good story
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 6:15 am
Several years ago, the American Legion Post in Bisbee had to sell the building they were housed in. It was too big and too old and maintenance had become impossible to keep up with. They had been in that building since the 1920s so packing everything up was a big project and many boxes were put into storage at various facilities.
Last year, the Post bought a new building after sharing space with the local VFW for the past few years.
In preparing the new building, all the old boxes were opened and examined.
Inside one was a framed Letter of Accommodation for a woman. Evidently, the governor of Arizona had directed this letter be given to a local woman for saving the life of another woman in a 1977 fire. No one knew the women involved or how the letter ended up in storage. A little detective work by a member revealed that the woman's daughter lived locally and the post contacted her. She was aware her mother had been in a fire but didn't know she had been a hero. It turned out the mother was going to be in town last week, and, to her surprise, she was honored with a short ceremony and presented with the Letter she should have received almost fifty years ago. Why she didn't receive it in 1977 and how it ended up in storage for years is still unsolved.
Last year, the Post bought a new building after sharing space with the local VFW for the past few years.
In preparing the new building, all the old boxes were opened and examined.
Inside one was a framed Letter of Accommodation for a woman. Evidently, the governor of Arizona had directed this letter be given to a local woman for saving the life of another woman in a 1977 fire. No one knew the women involved or how the letter ended up in storage. A little detective work by a member revealed that the woman's daughter lived locally and the post contacted her. She was aware her mother had been in a fire but didn't know she had been a hero. It turned out the mother was going to be in town last week, and, to her surprise, she was honored with a short ceremony and presented with the Letter she should have received almost fifty years ago. Why she didn't receive it in 1977 and how it ended up in storage for years is still unsolved.