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From home front to battlefield, new exhibit tells story of World War II (PA)

ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania: Fresh-faced soldier Paul Yoder dashed off a letter to his mother on Feb. 10, 1945, acknowledging receipt of a package from home and discussing the snowy weather on the German front.

"Things look a little better," he wrote in hurried, barely legible script. "Maybe one of these days the war will be over. We keep praying that it will."

Yoder was killed in action a day later. He was 19. His mother likely did not see the letter until after the Western Union telegram that delivered the grim news of his death.

Yoder's story, and many others, are told at a major new exhibit on World War II whose primary theme is sacrifice — both at home and on the battlefield. Officials at the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum in Allentown say the show, which took more than a year to put together, ranks among the largest of its kind in the United States.
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