The story is the strange part. He would never talk about it, but apparently, he refused a Silver Star. One of the letters we found was from General Chase disappointed in his refusal of the commendation. That is the confusing part, especially considering he had pretty good career for the next decade, from Tokyo to Austria. Even my grandmother doesn’t know the story, there are a lot of mysteries around it. It may just be the kind of person he was, but I really would like to start filling in the blanks. (plus I’m a nut for this type of stuff).
That it realy interesting stuff, I think. I’m a WWII buff and all of it is interesting.
To make an extremely long story short, My Mother had bought a house from a long time friend of hers. For whatever reason, after the woman’s husband died, she became estranged from his family. Then, myMother died, I got boxes of stuff of the woman’s husband’s brother who was a Marine killed in the intial invasion of Saipan. There was a Purple Heart and numerous other medals. I tarcked down the remaing family and returned the stuff to them. I don’t know whether they appreciated it or not but I felt relieved.