Years ago, I was showing my daughter pictures of my mother and father along with others from the rest of my family that constituted 5 generations of inhabitants of Cobb County Georgia.
We came upon a picture of my mother and father on a boat in Germany. A little preface here. My father served in the AAC in the Med, Siciliy and in the Battle of Rome according to his DD214. He enlisted in 1939 because he was from a sharecropper family in SC (Clinton) having only got through grade 5, and this was a step up for him. He was with the AAC through VE day and was part of the Occupation Forces in Germany (Frankfurt) on through 1949. Along the way, he was transferred to the AF in 1947.
This picture was of him and my mother (who he’d been lucky enough to have join him) on Hitler’s former yacht on the Rhein River that had been turned into a floating restaurant.
My daughter asked, “Where is this?”
I said “Hitler’s Yacht”
She said, “Who’s Hitler”.....
That is when I knew we have enemies running our schools.
I’ll have to tell you about the time I rode in the Ruby Yacht of Victor Kiam.