"A postman in Texas named Alvin Gauthier was recently looking through the parcel bin in his truck when he came across a Christmas card sent in 1944. Soon, he discovered a series of other undelivered letters sent between 1942 and 1944, all written by the same man, a soldier named Marion Lamb who was stationed overseas during World War II. A Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War, Gauthier immediately knew that he had to track down Lamb's family and put these letters in their hands.⁠

On his day off and using his own money, Gauthier then spent five hours making the 379-mile drive to the home of Lamb's sister, Jo Ann Smith, in Jacksonville, Arkansas. Soon after Gauthier arrived at Smith's front door, she hugged him, broke down in tears, and read the words her brother had written 80 years before. "I could have stuck them in the mail, but it's kinda like sometimes you have to go above and beyond," Gauthier said. "Just go the extra mile ... or 379 miles."⁠"