Thank you very much for sharing your fathers wonderful life story. I met a Bataan survivor named Ward Redshaw who was from Albuquerque. He was a slave laborer in a Japanese coal mine during his captivity.
The New Mexico outfits were very tight knit. He was going to the annual reunions up until he died. My mother’s first husband and high school sweetheart died in the European theater. She never told me that. I had to learn it from my older sister.
Different and tough Depression generation, who despite the worst kinds of treatment and circumstances, could still find love to give and share in their families.