Our experiences with our fathers is similar. Until we retired and moved from LA down to SD I had had a pair of Nazi binoculars and compass that I believe were stolen by movers. My father had taken them off the body of a Nazi officer during the Ardennes campaign-Battle of the Bulge. Dad was an Army cartographer draftee who helped create t…
Our experiences with our fathers is similar. Until we retired and moved from LA down to SD I had had a pair of Nazi binoculars and compass that I believe were stolen by movers. My father had taken them off the body of a Nazi officer during the Ardennes campaign-Battle of the Bulge. Dad was an Army cartographer draftee who helped create the Army’s D Day invasion maps and other campaign maps--by the time I was mature and finally retired to really learn what my parents had gone through in WW2 they were long passed. As a combat Vietnam veteran I am reading and collecting his and my remembrances in writing a book that my children and grandchildren can read to understand what shaped the rest of my life’s loves, work and faith.
Our experiences with our fathers is similar. Until we retired and moved from LA down to SD I had had a pair of Nazi binoculars and compass that I believe were stolen by movers. My father had taken them off the body of a Nazi officer during the Ardennes campaign-Battle of the Bulge. Dad was an Army cartographer draftee who helped create the Army’s D Day invasion maps and other campaign maps--by the time I was mature and finally retired to really learn what my parents had gone through in WW2 they were long passed. As a combat Vietnam veteran I am reading and collecting his and my remembrances in writing a book that my children and grandchildren can read to understand what shaped the rest of my life’s loves, work and faith.