September 21, 2013
In this undated family photo provided by Kevin Smith is a wedding picture of Pfc. John Farrell Eddington and his wife, Helen. Seven decades after the Missouri soldier died in World War II, Peggy Smith, the daughter he never met is about to get his Purple Heart medal, along with the emotional letter her father wrote just weeks after her birth, at a ceremony Saturday in Dayton.
Pfc. John Eddington was preparing for deployment to Europe in World War II when he learned his wife gave birth to a daughter. He penned a letter, sweetly telling the little girl how much he loved her and longed to see her.
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