Fifty-four years later, an 'angel' reconnects with the baby she saved

[proud2BlibKansan]

Fifty-four years later, Gwen Marie Aylward can still picture the stricken man’s face.

Ashen. White with despair over his wife and baby.

Aylward, now 75, was then a 20-year-old Trans World Airlines hostess from Boise, Idaho, six months into her dream job. She stood with pride in her crisp stewardess uniform — black hair curled and cut short, fine, straight features, her airline cap cocked at a jaunty angle. She was the only hostess on a 40-person aircraft flying a multi-stop route from San Francisco back to her base and new home in Kansas City.

“Coffee, tea or milk?” she routinely asked her passengers.

She would not know it, but before this flight was over she’d be offering a bounty of compassion.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/06/12/2012755/54-years-later-an-angel-reconnects.html#ixzz0qkSr7eQM

[etherealtruth]

1. What a wonderful bittersweet story

Thanks for posting. It is nice to be reminded of the "good" in people.

[1monster]

2. A great feel good story with the added attraction of being true. Thanks for posting.

[malaise]

3. What a lovely story

This could never happen today.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. I knew this famiy when I was a kid

She was a nice lady. Not surprised to read this story.

[malaise]

5. People used to care

Empathy was once considered an important human trait...and then came Nixon, Reagan and the Bush and Cheney bunch.

[lunatica]

6. I cried reading it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. It was very touching

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. amazing story

[Brickbat]

8. My goodness, what a craply written article. Which is too bad, because it's a good story.

[Celebration]

10. yeah, I had a hard time following it

Probably no proofs or rewrites........