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While Laura Tonkin's attic was being renovated, a worker found an old, tattered letter under the insulation. It was a letter written by a soldier from the front lines during World War I.

Durham woman discovers love letter written by WWI soldier during home renovation

Love letters from World War I

A woman found something more than 100 years old in her home - love letters from a World War I veteran.

TOLD RNC CAPITAL TEAM ABOUT DIVERSITY IN STEM ONLINE AT WRAL COM. TYPICALLY WHEN YOU GO DIGGING THROUGH YOUR HOME, YOU FIND SOMETHING THAT YOU LEFT BEHIND. BUT IN DURHAM, A WOMAN FOUND SOMETHING LEFT BY SOMEONE ELSE MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO. THE LETTER REVEALED A LOVE STORY TOLD FROM THE FRONT LINES OF WORLD WAR. ONE, ELIZABETH HOLMES SHARES THIS PIECE OF PAPER THAT SERVES AS A PORTAL TO THE PAST. >> MOST OF THEM TO SAY THAT'S WHAT LAURA TONKIN LOVES MAY BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT. HER DURHAM HOME IS DECKED OUT IN ANTIQUITIES FROM MASON JAR. LIGHT FIXTURES TO THIS CAREFULLY CURATED COLLECTION. >> IT'S PICTURES THAT NOBODY ELSE WANTED TO SAY. IF SHE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT SHE KEEPS AND WHERE. >> EXCEPT SHE DIDN'T KNOW A PIECE OF HISTORY WAS HIDING RIGHT UNDER HER NOSE OR WELL OVER TOP OF IT. THIS IS VERY COOL. >> THIS IS A LEATHER. >> THAT IS FALLING APART. BUT ITS MANY PAGES LONG BACK THEY FOUND IN MARCH WHEN WE STARTED SOME RENOVATION WORK ON THEIR HOUSE IN THE FLOORBOARDS OF HER ATTIC. NOW FINISHED ROOM. >> WAS THIS TATTERED LETTER SIGNED BOMB BE WOOSLEY. THE NAME DIDN'T RING A BELL. THERE'S NO YEAR LISTED AND IT WAS HARD TO READ I DON'T. THIS IS BUT IT'S REALLY COOL. TONKIN DECIPHER THE DARK CURSE OF INK AND FOUND QUITE THE STORY WAS A LOVE STORY. HE WAS WRITING TO HIS GIRLFRIEND OMA SUCH A SWEET LETTER WRITTEN FROM A SOLDIER ON THE FRONT LINES. THE SIGNATURE AND THE STATIONARY SHOWS WORSLEY WAS A FIRST LIEUTENANT IN THE INFANTRY STATIONED IN FRANCE DURING WORLD WAR. ONE PROBABLY WASN'T REAL 20'S. I IMAGINE SOME PARTS ARE HEAVY WITH THE WEIGHT OF WAR. WE HAVE SEEN QUITE A BIT OF SHELL FIRE. THE LETTER READS ARTILLERY PUT 8 SHELLS RIGHT NEAR MY KITCHEN WITHIN 100 TO 150 YARDS. THINK ABOUT. >> BEING ON THE FRONT AND WRITING A LETTER AT THIS TIME IN HISTORY AND THINK HAVING TO BE SO CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT YOU SAY. OTHERS LIGHT FILLED WITH LOVE HE SAYS YOU HAD ASKED ABOUT THE FRENCH GIRLS. I HAVEN'T MET TOO MANY, BUT FROM WHAT I CAN TELL, THEY DON'T COMPARE TO THE SOUTHERN GIRL. FRANKEN TOOK AN INTEREST IN KNOWING MORE ABOUT LOOSELY LITTLE. DID SHE KNOW HER RESEARCH WOULD ONLY TAKE HER A FEW MILES AWAY HERE TO THE OLD CHAPEL HILL CEMETERY. JOHN, BE WITH SLEET IS BURIED THERE. >> BESIDE HIS WIFE WHEN WE LOOK THEM UP AND FOUND WHERE HIS GRAVE WAS IS LIKE, OH, WOW, HE'S LIKE REAL. I LIKE RIGHT OVER THERE. UNC CONFIRMED WAS LE WAS FROM ASHBORO A FINANCE PROFESSOR WITH A BACKGROUND IN BANKING. HIS COLLEAGUES CALLED HIM A GREAT TEACHER WITH GOOD HUMOR AND GOOD WILL IN THIS MEMORIAL TO HIM WHEN HE DIED IN 1956. 5 YEARS THEY HAD NO CHILDREN AND NO OTHER FAMILY RECORD FAR AS I CAN TELL. NOBODY CAN ANYWAY, UNTIL HER SON'S HISTORY TEACHER USES IT FOR A LESSON IN

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