Memorial Day 2009

May 25, 2009 by Jeff · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Lest We Forget 

My Father passed away in January just a few days shy of his 87th birthday… He was World War Two veteran and like many of his peers he never talked much about his service or the things he’d seen. That all changed a few years ago when I gave him a copy of Band of Brothers on DVD. After we watched the miniseries he quietly started looking through old photo albums and boxes that hadn’t been touched years. Every so often he’d pull out a handful of pictures and ask me scan them and clean them up bit, I’m not sure how many photo I ended up scanning but there were quite a few. Eventually he started speaking at local schools about the war and some of his experiences with the 709th Military Police Battalion in Paris and later the 351st Engineer Regiment.

Scanning all those photos was strange experience, my Dad and I didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of things but he was always a rock… there were times he hand me a picture he wanted scanned and he smile and say with dusty look in his eye “he was a good guy”…

Anyway I’ve been thinking about my Dad today and the men he served with… I never knew them but in way a feel a connection to them through those old photos and from how my Dad talked about them so I thought I’d share a few of them you on this Memorial Day.

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