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Ninety Years Old, in Aurora, Colorado
By 2015, Bill Moore was 90 years old, living in an assisted care facility in Aurora, Colorado. Seventy years before that, he'd been a young soldier fighting through Europe as part of Patton's Third Army — one of millions of men writing letters home from a war most of them weren't certain they'd survive.
One of those letters was addressed to a woman he hadn't married yet.