Comments on: Better Late Than Never: 6 Delayed Tales

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:02:00 +0000

Okay, so it’s not 90 years, but something was mailed to me from Prague to Moscow back in 2006 – last year the place in Russia I used to work emailed me and said it had arrived… about 2 1/2 years late. I asked them to forward it to me here in NZ – probably almost a year later, still waiting. Not holding my breath…

By: Christi

Christi — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:44:00 +0000

Just today I showed my students the CNN Student News and the last story was about a Japanese-American woman who was taken out of college and put into a camp in the 1940s. This year the University of the Puget Sound gave her and classmates in the same situation honarary degrees.

Check out the link or cnn dot com/studentnews for May 19.

By: Sarah in CA

Sarah in CA — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:55:00 +0000

Great article… I’d love to see more, if more such stories could be found, haah. The part about the seriously delayed letter is not the first I have read about in recent years, I wonder what happens to them for so long.

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:47:00 +0000

My grandmother married her high school sweetheart at the age of 81. They had been having cocktail hrs over the phone for years, and finally tied the knot.

By: ann

ann — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:31:00 +0000

so I’ll get right on that counted cross-stitch project for my mom; started it summer 1991. On the other hand, that’s not even 20 years yet… maybe I should just wait a bit…

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:49:00 +0000

You’re right -he took a boat. I’ll make that read better.

By: BassMan

BassMan — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:00 +0000

“He was so embarrassed at not finishing that he flew back to his home in Japan without telling the Olympic officials. ”

I’m guessing you meant this figuratively- that he hurried. In 1912 he could never have literally flown home.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:14:00 +0000

My parents, and two aunts attended Granby and Maury and were part of the school while it was shut down. I’ve always found that story fascinating.

Interestingly, while many of the seniors went on to college or business school, the parents quickly organized homeschools through their church connections. Sunday School teachers quickly became regular teachers and classes were held in various homes.