For 40 years spruce with Christmas decorations stayed parked in a US citizen's room

Baku. 27 December. REPORT.AZ/ A slim spruce covered in tinsel and dusty Christmas decorations has stayed parked in Neil Olson's living room for 40 years now, Report informs citing foreign mass media.

89 years old Wisconsin manput up the tree in 1974 when two of his six sons went off to serve in the Vietnam War. He planned to take it down when he had all six boys home again for Christmas at the same time.

He's still waiting for that day. Five of the kids live in Wausau. But the eldest, who is disabled, lives in Washington state and has been unable to make the journey back to Wisconsin at Christmas.

"I bet you if my sixth boy comes home, the needles will drop right off," Olson said.