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Originally Posted by mamamia54
My dad was also in WWII. We knew he was shot down and left to die but for the grace of the other soldiers around him. He spent over a year in a German hospital. He received a Purple Heart. He never really spoke about the war. The few times he did, he would start to cry. He died at 94 in 2017. I was in contact with the Veterans Association for his headstone as he is buried in a VA cemetery. It was until that time that we found out my dad received TWELVE medals including a Bronze Star, Oak Leaf Cluster and many more. The men of that generation were very humble. They did what they felt was their duty to the country they loved. God bless them and all veterans who continue to so bravely protect us and this country. God bless America!
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Very cool information about your father.
I volunteered at the Veterans' Hospital in Reno, Nevada for a year of Saturday afternoons in 1977-1978 and the veterans I encountered rarely spoke about their war experiences. There were men from the Spanish American War through Vietnam.