“I’ve carried them on every flight since.”
Grandma touched the pin gently.
“He had two,” she said.
Danny nodded.
“He told me.”
She stared at the wings.
“When they returned his belongings, that one was missing. I wondered for years where it had gone.”
“I tried to find you,” Danny said. “But I didn’t know enough. Your husband only called you Ruthie.”
Grandma began crying quietly.
Danny explained that one of the flight attendants had noticed the matching pin on her purse.
That was why he had come looking.
Then