Posted on 12/16/2014 10:26:37 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Albert Darago had never fired a bazooka before. He was an “ack-ack” guy, a fuse-cutter on a 90mm antiaircraft gun. But on Dec. 19, 1944, the brass was looking for volunteers to go after some German tanks. And Darago said sure.
He was a 19-year-old, color-blind draftee, a native of Baltimore’s Little Italy and a musician who played piano and clarinet. He was no hero, he said.
But when Adolf Hitler launched the massive attack that began World War II’s bloody Battle of the Bulge, he had not reckoned on GIs like Darago.
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Maryland PING!
I praise and thank God for sending us brave men like these in my parents’ generation and on into today.
It’s easy for us to focus on the type of 19-year-old you describe because they are the ones the media choose to thrust into our faces. But there are still 19-year-old young men today willing to put their lives on the line as warriors, as policemen, and as firemen. May God bless and keep them.
Amen and amen.
My uncle in the101st said they were the hole in the donut.
God bless your dad.
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