Hi, Everyone, wishing my best to you for a fun and relaxing 4th of July.
This post was inspired by a very inspiring young lady and one of my favorite bloggers, Sara that reminded me to reflect on the personal sacrifices made for our freedom including the death of her Grandfather in World War II and buried in the American Military Cemetery in France.
I would like to honor my Uncle Buddy, age 83 y/o who served in World War II in the First Army, Infantry, as a gunner on a army tank in Europe. He liberated the death camps, Dachau and Treblinka in Eastern Europe. He talked about how you could smell the camps from miles away. He earned a purple heart in Normandie when he was injured with schrapnel. When he was recovering, he said he couldn't wait to get back to his battalion. The tank he served most of his tour was blown up with no survivors one day after he was reassigned to another tank. My uncle wrote down his stories (75 plus pages worth) of his experiences about 10 years ago. It took him decades to share with us.
I'm privileged to know him and Thank him and all of our veterans from too many wars and battles on lands both far and near, Thank you, God Bless, and God Speed Home to your loved ones.
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6 comments:
Wow! Thanks for such a great compliment!
And thanks for sharing another military story--you're right, we need to honor them. I'm off to write a post of my own! Thanks to your Uncle for serving
my grandfather would never talk about what he saw in europe. he took his stories to his grave. thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for sharing the story about your family - I am thankful for all the people like your uncle who have done so much for us. I was looking at the detroit newspaper clipping my grandma saved that mentioned his death and it said L Chapp was one of 96 soldiers killed today in battle overseas. I can't even imagine us being involved in a war nowadays where 96 deaths was "just another day" in the war. WWII was on a whole different scale that is hard for me to even relate to. That's why I look back at things like that, because I don't want to forget all that they have done. I didn't mention, but my grandfather's identical twin brother was killed two days later and is buried there as well. Lorraine Amer. Cemet. in St Avold was beautiful just like you said. Thanks for sharing your story as well and happy 4th!
What an amazing gift that he gave you all of those stories and thoughts.
Thank you for sharing. I love reading accounts of veteran family members.
Thanks for sharing such a personal story!
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