Thankfully there were other people who became invested in the life of Jack, and even though I said yesterday that “Real life, unlike TV shows and books doesn’t seem to wrap endings up in nice little bows so you know how things go”, I do have a little update on what happened to Jack and Eileen.

I had a family member (thanks Carolyn!) reach out who had done some searching and found Jack’s obituary from 2009 in Cochrane. It seems he passed away at the age of 97, and was survived by his wife, daughter, and a son and some grandchildren. From that I was able to find Eileen’s obituary and she passed away in 2016 also at the age of 97. So, they returned to Canada, to Cochrane, after the war.

It warmed my heart to know that that last letter, which wasn’t really a letter but a pre written post card, may have been the end of my story about Jack but nowhere near the end of his story, of their story. These letters, written by someone I never knew and never will know, have come to mean a lot to me, I’ve learned a lot from him.

Thank you Jack.