Imagine your husband goes off to war and he fails to come back. You wait and you wait for news and yet, you hear nothing. How long would you wait in order to uncover the truth of what happened to your husband?
The widow of Lt Bill Harris waited a staggering 67 years before she was finally told about his unfortunate demise and only after badgering the government to ultimately reveal what had happened. It turns out that her fighter pilot husband was shot down and killed. Through miscommunication and red tape, it took all of those years before it was finally revealed as to what had happened.
It turned out that her husband was one of the individuals that were commemorated every single year in Normandy for having given up their lives in trying to liberate France. The people in the town of Les Ventes knew what had happened to him, but it is amazing to think that his own widow had the information kept from her for all of those years.