I remember my Grandfathers. May they rest in peace.
Raymond, 36th Infantry Division from Texas- North Africa Landings, The Battle for Kesserine Pass, 2nd wave Salerno Sicily Landings, The Battle for San Pietro, The Battle for Monte Cassino... receiving wounds that ended the war for him near Lyons France late 1944.
Frank, 106th Transport Battallion- Enduring the buzz bombs with the English, later fighting alongside General Patton's men to relieve the 101st Airborne at Bastogne, crossing the bridge at Remagen, and on into the Rhineland. When he was called to return home in 1946, he had spent a year coordinating the influx of humanitarian aid to those that he just couldn't see as enemies anymore.
.... and thas is only the tiniest piece of the story.
All suffered on all sides.
I honor their memory.
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