Men of Company D

MorganGeo

jd50ae

My Father went from a country farm in Shiloh, Va. to Ft Monmouth to Beach Master during the invasion. I have picked up bits a pieces here and there but he would never talk about it. I do know he threatened to shoot Patton and his driver, opened one of the death camps and ended up in Berlin. He spent his last days in Paris before coming home. For some reason he never liked the French after the war. I remember having Thanksgiving dinner with a German couple when I was very young, the man was a POW that my Father had done something to save his life while he was a prisoner.

CharlieHeis

I've searched for both of my grandfathers' military service and come up mostly empty. I remember seeing one of them pictured during the Korean War in a textbook. Neither of them ever talked about anything other than the countries they travelled to during their time in the military.

flowbee

Rain

CharlieHeis:

I've searched for both of my grandfathers' military service and come up mostly empty. I remember seeing one of them pictured during the Korean War in a textbook. Neither of them ever talked about anything other than the countries they travelled to during their time in the military.

Can you request their Report of Separation from Active Duty?

CharlieHeis

Rain:

CharlieHeis:

I've searched for both of my grandfathers' military service and come up mostly empty. I remember seeing one of them pictured during the Korean War in a textbook. Neither of them ever talked about anything other than the countries they travelled to during their time in the military.

Can you request their Report of Separation from Active Duty?

I have never taken up a formal search. I really should go through official channels and get the whole history.

The3Stogies

First Warrior

My Dad was in 60mm motars in France and in Germany. He lost a toe to frostbite in the Battle of the Bulge. He would never talk about the war while I was growing up but he hated getting his feet cold. Dad used the GI bill to become a small animal vet in Cleveland Ohio. When I left for my war he packed up "care packages" of canned friut, coffee, tea, hot sauce and sent them to me every couple of weeks. I lived for those packages and for letters that I recieved and that i sent home. Twenty years after Vietnam we had a long talk about his war and my war and we became friends and comrades. He gave me back all the letters that I sent home and that he had numbered as they came into his mail box. I created a manuscript with the letters that he had saved and with his help the manuscript became my Vietnam memoir. Thanks Dad.

Rain

First Warrior:

My Dad was in 60mm motars in France and in Germany. He lost a toe to frostbite in the Battle of the Bulge. He would never talk about the war while I was growing up but he hated getting his feet cold. Dad used the GI bill to become a small animal vet in Cleveland Ohio. When I left for my war he packed up "care packages" of canned friut, coffee, tea, hot sauce and sent them to me every couple of weeks. I lived for those packages and for letters that I recieved and that i sent home. Twenty years after Vietnam we had a long talk about his war and my war and we became friends and comrades. He gave me back all the letters that I sent home and that he had numbered as they came into his mail box. I created a manuscript with the letters that he had saved and with his help the manuscript became my Vietnam memoir. Thanks Dad.

Having read your book, I almost feel like I know your dad. Strange, huh?

First Warrior

Not strange at all Doc. My letters in the book were written to him. You would have liked him.

flowbee

Morgan PM sir

Bigshizza

Very cool finding that stuff out! My dad signed up after Pearl Harbor but they found out he had TB and he was stuck in a Sanitarium for 10 years. That led to a life long bitterness and anger he never got over and should've never had kids. He told me about an Armistice Day parade in the late '20s. The marching of all the WWI vets, followed by Spanish-American vets and at the end 2 Union and 2 Confederate vets riding in cars. Yeah he's that old.

Martel

One of my grandfathers was a coal miner, and they wanted him doing exactly what he was doing during WWII. The other was a Sergeant in the Army. He never saw any action. He was stationed in Panama to guard the canal.

roland_7707