Dusty duffel bag found in Italy revives story of Cape Bretoner killed in WW II

Dusty duffel bag found in Italy revives story of Cape Bretoner killed in WW II

On most summer Sunday afternoons, Michele Facchini would be nowhere near the sweltering hot, low, flat fields northwest of Ravenna, Italy, with a metal detector.However, it was here he made an unexpected connection to Cape Breton's Hector McDonald, a soldier

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