Friendship During Wartime: Deborah Ranniger

Deborah Ranniger PHOTO COURTESY STORYCORPS NORTHWEST

Late in his life, Leonard Cornell developed Alzheimer’s.  As his condition deteriorated, he told one story again and again to his daughter Deborah. Here, for StoryCorps Northwest, she shares that story. It’s of an unlikely friendship and how it shaped her father’s life.

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