Posted by Billy NY on February 25, 2015 at 07:46:21 from (104.228.35.235):
In Reply to: Re: 70 years ago... posted by Royse on February 24, 2015 at 21:01:05:
That is funny you said that, and I initially wrote "earned" but it sounded odd to me, as if you have earned something at a job. I actually toiled at what word to use here. I highly respected the man. He was "awarded" 2 bronze stars and that is all his obituary states. I thought he was wounded as well. I'll have to ask my father, as he was there when my grandparents went to pick him up at Ft Dix or Hamilton when he was discharged. My father stated they were huddled in tents, bitter cold etc. He served from '39 to'45. He should know if that was left out or if in fact he was never wounded in action, something hard to believe given the intense fighting including hand to hand. Its hard to remember all the relatives so its possible I may not have remembered this detail correctly or associated it with him, given most if not all relatives served.
Correction: he was a great uncle to me, being the brother of my grandmother. In later years I did visit him and his family, bumped elbows with him a few times at one get together. He and most relatives were local, for some reason we never socialized all that much, but I remember he was a champion of family and he visited my mother and myself one Christmas morning, as I think he knew it was a rough time due to my parents divorce, he and a cousin(his daughter) came by to check on us, visit, mind you he had 8 or 9 kids himself. My father spoke very highly of him. By hap chance while doing some work on our property in the early summer of 2009, my father was actually here and Ralph was with his family having lunch across the street, I somehow discovered this and got them together one last time, wish I had a photo of that, he was fading at that time, but knew who my father was. It made me happy to see this short reunion, and I don't really believe it was all that much of a hap chance, things happen for a reason.
Jerry's thread denoting the anniversary of Iwo Jima reminded me of him, given his involvement in the pacific theater.
His ID is 20201754 on that list. U.S.Army 27th Division, 105th Infantry, Company D
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