Until today I have never seen a picture of my Aunt holding baby Jody. I didn't think any existed. Jody was very sick as a baby and I thought pictures were the last thing on their mind.
TODAY a pile of these pictures literally fell into my lap while going through some boxes and papers.
Stories go on and on.
Today I also found out for the first time in my life that my aunt's husband had been a prisoner of war in a German POW camp in 1944-45. Another thing that 'fell' into my lap today. There is even a picture of him in the striped clothing behind barbed wire.
I am left with abosolutely NOT A SINGLE relative left alive from that generation to tell me why I did not know this, why it wasn't even mentioned.