The Second World War ended an astonishing 69 years ago. The armistice for the Korean War was signed 61 years ago. We left Vietnam 41 years ago. These dates are rather like ancient history to many Americans, as distant as the Peloponnesian War. And our more recent history? Desert Shield began in 1990, Desert Storm […]
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This photo is of my mother and Warren Nelson — her brother and my uncle. He was a paratrooper in the Second World War and jumped in June and September 1944. He was wounded in December of that year in Bastogne. Along with my father and my Uncle Fred Muench, he was a veteran. Today […]
Among the papers my brother and I brought back from Florida after our father died this summer was his honorable discharge from the U.S. Army. The papers show that he enlisted in the Army when he was 17, weeks after graduating from high school in Yonkers, New York in 1945. It was July. By then […]
