You come from good stock.
Perhaps you can tell us more about your uncle.
From the Belton ISD website:
The legacy of Henry T. Waskow lives on almost 60 years after his death. He not only lives on in Belton, Texas, but in the annals of military history, journalism, and film.
On December 14, 1943, the body of Capt. Henry T. Waskow of Belton was carried down San Pietro Hill in Italy on the back of a mule. His passing was noted by America’s most famous chronicler of World War II and the men who fought it, war correspondent Ernie Pyle.
“In this war I have known a lot of officers who were respected by the soldiers under them,” Pyle wrote. “But never have I crossed the trail of any man as beloved as Capt. Henry T. Waskow of Belton, Texas.”
Waskow was a company commander in the 36th Division, and a young one. He was 25 when Pyle wrote about his death and the reaction of his soldiers when Waskow’s body was brought down that mountain side on a cold, moonlit night in Italy.
“He carried in him a sincerity and a gentleness that made people want to be guided by him,” Pyle wrote.
Soldiers were eager to share with Pyle their feelings toward the Captain. “After my father, he came next,” a Sergeant said. “He always looked after us. He’d go to bat for us every time,” another soldier said.
Locally, his hometown has named VFW HALL 4008 and a school - Henry T. Waskow High School- in his honor.
Waskow graduated from Belton High School in 1935 where he was Student Council President and had the highest grade point average of any male graduate in the school.
He attended what was then Temple Junior College in 1936 and 1937 and graduated from Trinity University with a bachelor's degree in English in 1939.
Waskow was buried in an Allied cemetery in Italy, but a marker bearing his name was later placed on a plot in North Belton Cemetery.
In May, 1999, a Burr Oak tree was planted in his honor at Temple College on the north side of the Arnold Student Union. The ceremony was attended by his sisters, Mary Lee and Selma.
http://www.bisd.net/home/Waskow/Webpages/Waskow%20High%20School%27s%20History%20Page.htm