And sometimes you have to look back in time
to see a timeless gesture between friends...
Back in 1952, in the Ford River Rouge Plant in Detroit,
every man worked the assembly line. Same shift, same lunch whistle. Joe Kowalski, 42, a Polish-American line worker, had a ritual. Every day at noon, he opened his dented metal lunchbox and took a photo out. A photo of his son, Michael, who was fighting in Korea. He would look at it, kiss it, and put it back. One day, his son's photo went missing from the lunchbox. He thought he lost it. He didn't eat for 3 days.
The 60 men on his line heard about it. They each brought a photo of their own sons, brothers, fathers in the war, and taped them inside his lunchbox lid. 60 photos.
Inside the lid they wrote: "We all wait with you, Joe."
Two weeks later, Joe got a telegram. Michael was alive and coming home. The whole line stopped working for 5 minutes and cheered. That lunchbox is now in the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit.
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