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A string of jaw-dropping coincidences in the last week of WWII had Colonel Matt Konop liberating the same Czech villages his grandparents had left for Wisconsin in the 1860s. Konop’s first language was Czech, and the townspeople paraded him around town on their shoulders, declaring, “one of our own has freed us!” However, like many returning veterans, Konop didn’t talk about his experience after the war. And when he died in 1983, his family knew nothing of the story that changed his life.