My mother always spoke about her older brother, Daniel — the one who went off to war and never came home. There were no letters, no records, nothing but his name carved on a small memorial. For years, I tried to find him. Every search ended the same way: blank pages and missing files. I figured his story had disappeared, just like he had. Then I tried searching newspapers instead of databases. GenealogyBank had old editions from his hometown, so I typed his name. One single article appeared. It