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My grandfather was initially trained as a medic and assigned to be deployed to Italy. The night before he shipped out, however, he came down with a kidney stone. As a result, he was reassigned to an army hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

My great-uncle, Tech5 Don Most, fought with the 100th division in Europe. He was wounded and awarded the Purple Heart in the push through France. He spent some time in occupied Germany and survived the war but after getting home was clipped by a drunk driver and killed while on his motorcycle in 1947. His father (my great-grandfather) fought in World War I as a new immigrant from Russia attaining the rank of corporal and earning his citizenship through service in the Army.