Emma

If there's a good wartime story worth telling and sharing: this one should be told as it unfolds much sadness, but amid disaster and hardship, hope was a light flickering underneath those bomb-blackened, crumbling stones. During World War II before the Allies landed in Salerno, the city in Southern Italy, my uncle was a prisoner of war in England... an Italian was considered an enemy, but Emma, the beautiful British woman, didn't see it as a barrier and in that camp he treated him as a friend. Was Emma moved by the pitiful look of a soldier captured and brought to foggy England, where the winds were as cold as the murky air; didn't he dream of his distant motherland? Needless to say compassion was found in Emma's heart and her words brought much tenderness he never forgot, " Soon this war will end and you'll breathe the crisp air of spring: when a mockingbird's song will remind you of this far-away friend! "