After 71 years with no contact, Harold Esmailka (left) of the Yukon River town of Ruby reunited with Wrangell resident and old Army buddy Elmer Mork during the weekend of May 10 in Wrangell.
At age 94, longtime resident Elmer Mork was reunited with an old Army buddy after 71 years with no contact.
"He got homesick for (me)," Mork said of his friend Harold Esmailka, age 93. "My little brother."
Esmailka's son-in-law, Dale Erickson, had recently gotten a boat in Seattle and wanted to base it in Wrangell. When Erickson found out that one of the town's residents was Esmailka's often-talked-about Army friend, he contacted his father-in-law.
Esmailka remembered Erickson's phone call, "He said, 'Come on down, we want you to see your old buddy Elmer.'"
He arrived in town from the Yukon Ri...
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