{"id":44143,"date":"2022-07-26T16:05:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armenia23.ru\/?p=44143"},"modified":"2022-07-26T16:07:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:07:31","slug":"during-the-second-world-war-one-american-soldier-took-a-13-year-old-italian-girls-birthday-cake-after-77-years-they-met-again-video-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armenia23.ru\/?p=44143","title":{"rendered":"During the Second World War one American soldier took a 13-year-old Italian girl’s birthday cake. After 77-years they met again! Video below"},"content":{"rendered":"

While battling Nazi occupiers in 1945, American soldiers took a 13-year-old Italian girl’s birthday cake.<\/p>\n

At a ceremony staged in Vicenza’s Salvi Gardens 77 years later, the Department of Defense found money in the budget to cover a replacement birthday cake for Meri Mion.<\/p>\n

Due to their early arrival in those regions of Italy that saw fighting during World War II, Americans are well-liked.<\/p>\n

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However, in 1945, while combat raged in the Gu village of San Pietro, several undoubtedly starving soldiers stole Meri Mion’s birthday cake that her mother had cooked for her particular day.<\/p>\n

Meri’s cake was placed on the windowsill to cool in an image that could have come straight out of a Tom & Jerry cartoon. <\/p>\n

It was snatched by what the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) called ‘resourceful’ Americans as it had just been removed from the warm oven.<\/p>\n

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Sgt. Peter Wallis, who had the distinction of presenting the retroactive 13th-birthday treat in a ceremony last week, said, ‘It was a little weird, but it makes me feel fantastic to give her the cake.<\/p>\n

Mion replied, ‘We shall enjoy that dessert with my entire family tomorrow as we commemorate this lovely day that I will never forget.’<\/p>\n

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As bitter as the fighting was, National Archives officials uncovered images from the fights in and around Vicenza for the occasion.<\/p>\n

The images show a rapidly developing friendship between the American soldiers and the locals, who would provide food and wine during lulls in the fighting.<\/p>\n