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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SYNCHRONCITY, post: 1988176, member: 6283&quot;]I love the cool stories I read about the unusual things some of you have found. I thought I would share something unusual that happened to me once. Several years ago I started collecting Victorian photos, especially Civil war era photos. One night I saw an online auction for a late 1930&#039;s photo in a frame. Photos taken after the the 19th century aren&#039;t my cup of tea and I don&#039;t bother collecting them at all unless someone gives them to me for free.</p><p><br /></p><p>Something about the man in the photo was calling out to me. His deep brown eyes and shy grin really drew me in. I won the photo for under $5, but really wasn&#039;t excited about winning it. I couldn&#039;t understand why I had to have it, but it was like that man was calling out to me for some reason. When I got it the glass panel on the front was spotted with filth. I decided to clean the glass so I slid the glass panel out. When I removed the panel a bunch of letters, post cards and tiny photo booth photos came spilling out of the frame.</p><p><br /></p><p>Turns out the guy was a Civilian on Wake Island and was captured by the Japanese and died in the POW camps. All of the Prisoner of War letters that he had sent home to his parents were hidden away behind the frame. It was humbling and very sad to have found these letters and I found out he died in the war camp. In the letters he kept telling his parents not to worry about him. He told them how much he longed to be home again. That totally broke my heart. RIP Charles Austin Moe!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]247455[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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