[FMBass]

“Sounds like your dad was an amazing man.”

Thanks. I think so, and also think the same about your Uncle.

It is unfortunate in one sense that my dad never spoke more about the war. It was only several years after he passed that I looked into his war record, the outfit he served with, and comprehending what he went went through.

To say least, I was awed, absolutely humbled, and at the same time, extremely proud.

[Stonewall Jackson]

I was fortunate a few years ago, when my grandfather and my great-uncle Gordon (on the other side of my family from great-uncle Art) sat down with me and allowed me to make a video recording of them talking about their experiences in World War Two.

My grandfather had been promoted to first lieutenant two days before Pearl Harbor was attacked, but he was never deployed overseas. Great-uncle Gordon, however, served as the operations officer for the 15th Tank Battalion of the 6th Armored Division. He crossed the Normandy beaches about a month after D-Day. On November 15, 1944, he was severely injured by a German mortar barrage and spent the next twenty months in a hospital in Scotland.

Both my grandfather and great-uncle Gordon passed away in December 2005, but I have this recording of their experiences to help keep their legacy alive.