They Took Entire Towns for WWII

[00:00:00]That image kind of sticks with me because we talk about lost villages. We picture ruins, you know? You you picture looking out and just seeing stone foundations. I picture like cemetery gates, old roads. But sometimes the most powerful ruins are actually paper. You know, a a postcard saved in a box, a clipping from a newspaper that nobody prints anymore, a letter from great-grandma wondering what would happen with that Hitler fella. That is the exact collision point of this story, right? A a family in Wood's Mills reading about a war overseas, not knowing that war would come for their road, it'd come for their house, it'd come for their church, it'd come for their cemetery. And history, it didn't arrive all at once. It arrived as headlines, then letters, then surveyors, then notices, then moving wagons, then silence.