"She stood out a little bit from the rest of them," Tony says with a little smile. From there she took a train to St. Louis, where Tony and his family had relocated. My mother said, 'You're not going there looking like a refugee.' So I took the whole family's war ration booklets, six of them, and bought a wool tweed suit and my heavy English shoes. All to meet Tony's family. I stepped off the train in St. Louis, and it was 100 degrees. Tony's standing there in shorts; I almost didn't recognize him out of uniform." Tony's family soon moved back to Chicago, but in September 1946 he ended up in west suburban Hines Veterans Hospital with tuberculosis, contracted in France.
Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/holiday/ct-sun-1006-love-notes-provenzano-2-20131006,0,7652619.story?track=rss
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