A Diary Request

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Before Cpl. Thomas Jones was killed by a Japanese sniper in 1944, he wrote his "last life request" to anyone who might find his diary: Please give it to Laura Mae Davis, his high school sweetheart.

70 years later, a 90-year-old Laura Mae Davis Burlingame found her fallen boyfriend's diary in a museum: http://nyp.st/19gXtGe