US army replaces cake it stole from Italian girl 77 years ago
by Angela Giuffrida from World news | The Guardian on (#5YPHC)
Meri Mion, 90, was 13 when soldiers took her birthday cake as it cooled on windowsill in San Pietro
Repentant American soldiers have presented an Italian woman with a birthday cake to make up for the one their predecessors stole from her as it cooled on a windowsill 77 years ago.
It was the eve of Meri Mion's 13th birthday when US troops arrived in her village of San Pietro, near Vicenza in northern Italy, to fight against German soldiers.
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