“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.” Words spoken by Robert E. Lee as he watched James Longstreet’s First Corps (Army of Northern Virginia) decimate the Yankee army as it attacked his defensive position on Marye’s Heights on December 14, 1862. Twelve thousand Union casualties—dead bodies everywhere.
Dad stormed the beaches at Normandy, fought in the Normandy hedgerows, and helped liberate Paris. There, the Army made him an officer. During the Battle of the Bulge and the freezing cold, he and his men repulsed the Wehrmacht’s Fifth and Sixth Panzer Divisions. He then marched into Germany, and when Adolf Hitler was defeated, he volunteered for service in the Pacific.
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