He died in the Korean War. His letters home were rediscovered 70 years later

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When Sophia Wheeler and her boyfriend moved into his grandparents’ old farmhouse near Cornwall, Ont., she knew they’d have to sort through the documents and boxes that were left behind. 

She wasn’t expecting to find old wartime letters dating back to the 1950s between her boyfriend’s grandmother and a relative who was serving in the Korean War. 

“I came across these handwritten letters and I was really blown away. It was personal, so of course I didn’t want to go through it too much,” she told CBC Radio’s Ontario Morning.

At first, she thought the letters might tell the story of a long-lost love.

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