10个终于被解开但仍耐人寻味的历史之谜(下)_英美文化

10个终于被解开但仍耐人寻味的历史之谜(下)

While in Castel DAiano, McCauley stopped at the de Maria home, which the Italian family had opened to American soldiers for food and medical care. When McCauley left, his bracelet stayed behind, although no one knows if he lost it, forgot it, or left it on purpose as a kind of payment or tribute to the de Maria family. Nevertheless, Bruna de Maria, then eight years old and living there in poverty, found the bracelet and kept it as an unexpected treasure. She always lovingly cared for the bracelet but never tried to find its owner.

在达伊阿诺城堡，麦考利住在玛利亚家，这个意大利家庭为他这个美国士兵提供了食物和医疗帮助。麦考利离开时，他的姓名牌留在了那里，没有人知道，他当时是丢了，还是忘记了，或是作为酬谢或是礼物送给玛利亚家。

Decades later, her grown son, Stefano Sedda, persuaded his mother to return her treasure to its original owner. This bracelet made history, Sedda explained. It belonged to an American soldier who came here to fight, to defend our country—thats why I thought of giving it back.

数十年后，玛利亚长大的儿子斯特凡诺·萨奇劝他的母亲把这块姓名牌送还给它原来的主人。“这块姓名牌承载了历史，”萨奇解释道，“这是一个美国大兵来到我们国家为了保护我们而战斗。”这就是我为什么想还回去的理由。

Through a friend, Sedda contacted an American lawyer, who worked with a journalist and the Army to trace the bracelets ID number to McCauley. Though McCauley had died 30 years earlier, they found his 85-year-old widow, Twila McCauley, living in Buena Vista, California. Warren McCauley had shared some wartime stories with his family—like the time he fell into a river and a donkey walked over him—but hed never told them about the bracelet.