Posted on 11/19/2009 4:17:25 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
For 90-plus years, Bill and Carl Larson had each other's back on their Oklee, Minn., farm. Then Carl wandered off one night, and Bill set out to find him.
Except for the three years that Bill was fighting the Nazis and Carl was an Army medic in the Pacific, the Larson brothers had been side by side for more than 90 years.
They grew up farming on the outskirts of Oklee, Minn., never married, and stayed on the family farm to raise prize-winning Belgian horses long after their two older brothers, Roswall and George, died decades ago.
So when 95-year-old Carl Larson didn't return home on a dark, moonless night last week, 98-year-old Bill did what a protective older brother does: He headed out to look for Carl. The next morning, a hunter in blaze orange discovered a body in the Larsons' field. Neighbors hustled over, identified Bill's body and found Carl alive in a nearby ditch.
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I suspect Carl will join his brother sooner rather than later, that’s usually how it works. RIP.
That’s the way usually goes, sadly.
I just thought that this was a such a special story...
Touching story.
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