Sunday, June 06, 2010

My father . . .

. . . the Pacific, 1944.

He told me he never fired a shot in anger, nor did he receive one. He didn't storm a beach or charge a machine gun. He did, however, quit an exempt job in an ammunition plant in St. Louis to enlist. He was a good man.


22 SEP 1914 - 27 DEC 1991