Memorial Day 2021

This Memorial Day, thinking about my Dad and the WWII journey he never wanted to talk much about other than "I saw a lot of action" and "I made it home". Thinking about his best buds Gambino and Walisko who did not and all the other brave souls who never made it home from foreign lands either. My father was 69th Infantry, 271st Division from 1942 to 1946, from Camp Shelby in Mississippi to England through France, Germany, Belgium, Leipzig, Buchenwald, Switzerland, and on that great ship home to NYC in March 1946. One irony is that the displaced Polish refugee he was going to fall in love with years later was on another ship, from Murmansk to Philadelphia, at the very same time. Miss them both so much.