Army Sgt. 1st Class Joseph E. Gantt went off to war 63 years ago, leaving behind a wife who never gave up on his return.
On
Friday, 94-year-old Clara Gantt stood up from her wheelchair and wept
in the cold before the flag-draped casket. Sgt. Gantt was finally home.
The faithful widow spoke to the journalists saying,
"He told me if anything happened to him he wanted me to remarry. I told him no, no. Here I am, still his wife."Gantt
was a field medic who went missing in action on Nov. 30, 1950 during
the Korean War while serving with Battery C, 503rd Field Artillery, 2nd
Infantry Division, according to the Defense Prisoner of
War/Missing
Personnel Office in Washington, D.C.