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The Soldier Who Never Died: Father, Lie, and the Wall Photograph
The Soldier Who Never Died: Father, Lie, and the Wall Photograph
A sealed military portrait found inside a wall in August 2019 cracked open a six-decade family secret: a soldier declared dead who actually returned home broken, then vanished into a deliberate falsehood. Why did Eleanor Ennis keep his uniformed photograph on her mantel while telling the town her husband had been killed in the Philippines, and what did she mean when she wrote she did it “to keep her daughter safe”?
In this episode, we follow the discovery of the photograph and trace the decisions that split a family into two…
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