Honoring our Veterans

Yesterday was Veteran's Day.  It's a meaningful day for us as Mack was in the Army Air Corps in WWII flying heavy bombers.  My Uncle Jack was killed in France on July 4th, 1944. He was part of the 82nd Airborne.

Our family has tried to find out all we can about our Uncle and his service.  My sister has written to surviving family members of his unit (the 508th) and, sadly, most who served with Jack are gone.  We think it's important to try to preserve the memories and possessions of those he knew and who knew him.  It won't be long until there won't be many around who can still remember those times.

Of course, more recently Mack's grandson served in Iraq.  A totally different conflict where communications are instantaneous.  We always knew that David was OK because we could e-mail or even phone him every day.  When Uncle Jack died, his family wasn't notified for more than a week.  And his remains weren't returned to the US for 4 years.

No war is good.  But the men who are called to fight in them are our bravest citizens.

We salute them all.

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