When Emmett Rychner was just 2 years old, he made fast friends with his neighbor, as many toddlers do. His new friend, however, wasn’t another toddler.
Erling Kindem is an 89-year-old World War II veteran who got to know little Emmett when the curious boy asked Erling about the tomatoes in his garden. Though Emmett’s parents hardly knew the man they’d lived next door to for nearly ten years, their son developed a touching friendship with his new, much older best buddy…