[Jen]

Hi gang! Last week I met my step-dad's uncle -- Aubrey Hicks. He served 21 years in the Army and a few months of that was in the Army Air Corps. He's 84 but my oh my is his mind as sharp as a tack! He told me so many stories - like being part of the landing at Anzio and earning two Purple Hearts, and being a POW in Poland and escaping while on a march and hiding in a haystack. He said the German guards shot through the haystack and barely missed him. After a few days he met some Russian troops who he stayed with until he could get to a British ship which took him to a hospital. AMAZING! I wish I'd had a tape recorder or video camera with me. I told him about the Veterans History Project and urged his son-in-law to check into it and preserve all his wonderful stories.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Sounds like a really interesting person to meet. I love to hear real stories, it just catches my imagination like a kid.

[SAMWolf]

Tell him thanks for his service.