It was Mary Mion’s 13th birthday when US troops arrived in the village of San Pietro, near Vicenza in northern Italy, to fight German troops. During the battle, her family spent the night in the attic, emerging the next day after the retreat of German soldiers, who had shot near her home. Subscribe to the First Edition, our free daily newsletter – every morning at 7am Mion’s mother then began baking a birthday cake, leaving it to cool in an open window, only to be stolen by potentially hungry American soldiers. An emotional Mion, turning 90 on Friday, was given a replacement cake by soldiers from the U.S. Army Guard in Italy during a ceremony at the Giardini Salvi in Vicenza on Thursday. She said that she was not waiting for the cake, although she clearly remembered the moment when the one baked for her 13th birthday “disappeared”. “I was surprised,” he told the local newspaper Il Giornale di Vicenza. “But then I realized that the American soldiers had taken it and it made me happy. It was a good end to everything they had done. “ The large strawberry cream cake, garnished with a basket of mini Easter eggs, was presented by Sergeant Peter Wallis and Col. Matthew Gomlak, commander of the guard, during a ceremony attended by Italian and American soldiers, local officials and local officials. Gomlak recalled the battles between the US Army and German forces in the Vicenza region in 1945, in which 19 American soldiers were killed, and how locals offered soldiers bread and wine. “This warm welcome from the people of Vicenza continues to this day,” he said. Mion said she will share the cake with her loved ones to celebrate her 90th birthday. “I will eat the cake with my whole family, reminiscent of a wonderful day I will never forget.”
