Most of them do/did not talk much about their SERVICE

I also found his Bronze Star Medal, and he merely gave his “stock answer” for an explanation of why he had received it. “Oh, they gave one of those to all the guys in that area.” When I later looked up the requirements to receive the STAR, I realized Dad had probably not told me about what he had really gone through.

When Pop was 85 years old (He died at 93.), he was in the hospital and delirious and spent most of one night giving orders to the men under him. Dad was a “Tech” or “Master” Sergeant and was “barking out” the following: “Get those trucks loaded now, now, now, and secure your weapons. They are behind us, and they are in front of us. We’ve got a job to do and no time. Let’s go; let’s go; let’s go!”

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