The Soldier Who Shared His Rations with a Skeleton โ Nordhausen, Germany, 1945
In the Nordhausen concentration camp, an American soldier named Private Lee Davis found a prisoner so emaciated he couldn't lift his head. The man's eyes blinked, almost lifeless. Davis knelt down and broke off a piece of his own chocolate ration, gently pressing it into the man's mouth.
The man began to cry, unable to chew, but clutching the chocolate as if it were gold. "He hadn't spoken for weeks," said another soldier, "but he whispered 'thank you'โin English." Private Davis stayed by his side all night. The man survived. For years, he wrote to Davis, calling him "the man who brought flavor back to the world."
A tired and frustrated Nigerian traveler, arriving from a long flight and carrying a large quantity of goods for his wifeโs birthday celebration, was briefly stopped at the airport.