A Hendersonville thrift store received an unexpected donation of a World War II uniform earlier this month, with pieces of personal history tucked inside a pocket.
Executive Director Kyle Hill said that no two days are the same at the Hendersonville Samaritan Association, and that every donation is different.
The uniform came in like most of the other donations the Hendersonville Samaritan Association receives, with the ringing of the back doorbell. The family of Sergeant Harold Goodrich, who called him “Uncle H,” had kept the uniform in a box for years and told the Association that they no longer knew what to do with it. Once staff received the box and opened it, they sat with the uniform on the donation intake table for an hour, trying to decide what to do with it…