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Dozens of kind strangers relay an American POW’s reassuring words. In late November 1944, Private First Class Richard E. Kells and his unit were pulled off the front lines near the French town of Niederbronn-les-Bains, just shy of the German border, for some rest and the promise of a Thanksgiving dinner. Kells, 22, was an …
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