World War II soldier's letter to mother delivered 76 years after it was sent

A letter sent from an American soldier to his mother in Massachusetts has been delivered 76 years after it was sent, CBS Boston reports. Army Sgt. John Gonsalves, 22 at the time, wrote to his mother in Woburn while he was stationed in Germany on December 6,1945, after the official end of WWII.

The letter would sit unopened for three quarters of a century before being discovered in a U.S. Postal Service distribution facility in Pittsburgh.

"Dear, Mom. Received another letter from you today and was happy to hear that everything is okay," the letter reads. "As for myself, I'm fine and getting along okay. But as far as the food it's pretty lousy most of the time."