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To: bramps; DFG

I’m 86 and still choke up when I think back to that era as both of my older brothers were drafted in early 1945 plus a sister enlisted in the WACs and the other sister left home to work in a defense plant and our home was suddenly quite and little sister were alone. Brother Werner made the Air Force, Brother Herb was in a combat engineering battalion unit that built the structures that were used on D-Day plus his unit was one of many that put Bailey Bridges across France and sister Wilma worked in a Calif military hospital . Later my two sisters married men that served. One was in a aircorp division that built the first P47 dirt strip behind Utah beach on DD + 7 or 8 and the other fought in 2 or 3 fierce Naval battles in the South Pacific. They all cane home, Married, raised kids and lead normal lives...


15 posted on 02/13/2019 7:54:29 PM PST by tubebender
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To: tubebender

Thanks for sharing. So glad they all came home. A truly great American family! I’m honored to know you.


16 posted on 02/13/2019 8:17:32 PM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: tubebender

Wow! Fantastic family to be very proud of!!


17 posted on 02/13/2019 8:24:47 PM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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Tubebender...it sounds to me as if your family is just chock full of what many call “The Greatest Generation”!
28 posted on 02/14/2019 4:44:10 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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I got one date wrong. My two brothers were drafted in early 1942
30 posted on 02/14/2019 9:29:58 AM PST by tubebender (we)
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It was a different era and the people were real in a way we cannot hope to be.

My mother in law and father in law were models of life for me, I loved them dearly, and they were both caught up in the War. Me? I am the product of the Marshall Plan. Dad went back and married an Italian.


32 posted on 02/14/2019 2:14:30 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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