Posted by mb58 on July 22, 2013 at 08:21:53 from (192.234.241.146):
My 92 year old neighbor passed away last week. ( He was working in his garden and had a stroke!)We've been neighbors since 1986. I have visited with him many times over the years and knew he was a WW2 vet. He was a great talker but rarely mentioned being in the "war" unless it was some funny story he would tell me. Somehow, I got the eroneous idea that he never left the States during his time in service. You can image my shock when after he passed, I found out he was a wounded vet. Seems they were crossing through the Dragon's teeth (Siegfried line) into Germany following a taped-off path through a mine field, when some idiot stepped over the tape and exploded a mine. My neighbor recived shrapnel from it. One completely through the leg and another lodged in his back. It was his "million dollar wound" and he was sent back to the USA. At the funeral service his oldest son (who told me the story) had a shadow box with the Purple Heart medal and the piece of shrapnel. The shrapnel appeared to be a roller out of a ball-bearing of the cylindrical style about 1/2" long and 1/4" diameter. Wish I had known about this while he was still alive. I know he would have told me the story but he wasn't the kind that was going to bring it up on his own.
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