Joseph Gantt met Clara Edwards on a train from Texas to Los Angeles. He spent two years trying to get her to say yes. She finally did, and they married in June 1948. When he was deployed to Korea, he told her to remarry if he didn't come back. She told him no. On 1 December 1950, Sergeant First Class Gantt was taken prisoner near Kunu-ri while defending his unit's position. He was a field medic. He died in a North Korean prison camp on 27 March 1951. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valour. Clara never got a body. Never got a funeral. Never got closure. And she never remarried. She waited 63 years. In December 2013, forensic analysts at the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command in Honolulu finally identified his remains. Joseph was coming home. Clara was 94 years old when she stood on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport and watched her husband's flag-draped casket come off the plane. The photograph appeared in more than 100 major newspapers around the world. He had spent two years convincing her to marry him. She spent 63 proving she meant it. Clara Gantt died in 2015 at the age of 97. She never remarried 🤍

Joseph Gantt met Clara Edwards on a train from Texas to Los Angeles. He spent two years trying to get her to say yes. She finally did, and they married in June 1948. When he was deployed to Korea, he told her to remarry if he didn't come back. She told him no. On 1 December 1950, Sergeant First Class Gantt was taken prisoner near Kunu-ri while defending his unit's position. He was a field medic. He died in a North Korean prison camp on 27 March 1951. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valour. Clara never got a body. Never got a funeral. Never got closure. And she never remarried. She waited 63 years. In December 2013, forensic analysts at the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command in Honolulu finally identified his remains. Joseph was coming home. Clara was 94 years old when she stood on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport and watched her husband's flag-draped casket come off the plane. The photograph appeared in more than 100 major newspapers around the world. He had spent two years convincing her to marry him. She spent 63 proving she meant it. Clara Gantt died in 2015 at the age of 97. She never remarried 🤍