With one exception, no one in Nicholas Hartman’s family thought he would ever come home again. He went to war and became another 20-year-old American soldier killed on D-Day.
Hartman was never really accounted for, recorded as “unidentified” along with three U.S. Army brothers. Instead of returning to his native Houston, he was interred in France at the makeshift cemetery set up as the Allies advanced into France.
News of his death came back to Houston, but he didn’t. His mother, Nanny Hartman, held onto hope he was still alive, and that her son would someday walk up the street. She’d go to the door to look, or amble to the mailbox religiously in search of a letter. He was her youngest, with two older brothers and a sister.
Source: Fallen D-Day soldier finally comes home to Houston after 81 years
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