She wrote the children's names on slips of paper and buried them in jars in a neighbor's yard as a record that could help locate their parents after the war.
她将孩子们的名字写在纸片上,把纸片放入瓶中,最后埋在邻居院子里,以便战争结束后家长们能够找到孩子。
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In 1963, almost 200 years after those words were set to paper, a full century after a great war was fought and emancipation proclaimed, that promise — those truths — remained unmet.