What a horrible thing to have to do when 19, but sounds like your father rose to the occasion. War is terrible, but living without freedom is worse. Because of people like your father, we live in freedom...so far. God Bless your Father, and your family.
Because of people like your father, we live in freedom...so far. God Bless your Father, and your family.
Thanks. There are many others like me who share the same family history and we will not forget.
One of the things we did, having had the opportunity to live in Europe for 5 years, work related, was take our kids to several concentration camps so they could see the horrors of war, and the fact that at that time it all happened within the last 50 years.
Todays memory span unfortunately in the “ its all about me” world doesn’t reflect on things like that, so it was important for us to install the memory of our Polish side immigrant grandparents fleeing the Russians, and their grandfather being involved I stopping the atrocity of the Holocaust, etc.
Also my wifes dad being in the Pacific theater , a Purple Heart recipient, who had to make his way back through enemy lines to finally sing “ I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandee” so he could be identified as an American.
That was the code used if one was in that type of situation.
These lessons and citing how my dads father fought in the trenches in Europe during WW I were family memories that we wanted them to know about as they too learned from their European classmates what it was like for a family to live in constant fear due to another nations quest for power.