[higgmeister]

My 2 older brothers were drafted in June & July 1942. The older one was assigned to a engineering battalion and was shipped to England where he was involved in D Day and the crossing of the Rhine. The next one had tried to enlist in the Army Air Corp and was turned down but after he was drafted and served basic training was assigned flight school and became a Bombardier on a B17 and shipped to Molesworth Eng where he flew 17 missions over France & German before they were shot down on Aug 15 1944 over Weisbaden Gr and spent the rest of the war as a German POW. Both bothers came home, married and had raised a family and died of old age...

What a wonderful tribute for lives of duty well lived.

[tubebender]

I forgot to mention that my oldest sister joined the WACs and both of my brothers in law served, one in Europe building airfields and the other on a ship that was involved is 2 or 3 big Naval battles in the South Pacfic...