During the celebrations of the nineties, Meri Mionová from the city of Vicenza in Italy received a gift that amused and touched her. During World War II, as a girl, a starving American soldier took her birthday cake. After 77 years, the army decided to pay off an old debt.
Italian senior Meri Mion just before her thirteenth birthday when American soldiers fought the Germans near her home village of San Pietro near the city of Vicenza. The night before the planned celebration, he and his mother hide in the attic of the family farm. The next morning, the mother baked a cake for the girl, but in the end someone else enjoyed it.
As the dessert cooled on the windowsill after it was removed from the oven, starving soldiers from the United States could not help but steal it from the windowsill. After nearly eight decades, the American decided to make up for the disappointment the Italian woman experienced in her childhood. The station news website wrote about it BBC.
On the last Friday of April, Mionova was 90 years old, and members of the American troops surprised her at a celebration in the Giardini Salvi park in Vicenza with a cake similar to the one the army had stolen from her. “I will share it with my whole family. I will never forget this beautiful day,” the retiree rejoiced.
Sergeant Peter Wallis takes on the task of giving Mion a birthday present. “At first I felt a little weird, but in the end it felt great,” the officer said. Colonel Matthew Gomlak, commander of the US garrison in Italy, later gave a speech at a celebration of the 1945 battle, highlighting that locals then offered US soldiers bread and wine. “I’m glad we got the same warm welcome today,” Gomlak said.
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