Veterans Day 2006
These are my father's dogtags from his days in Burma, with the Army Air Force during World War II. Because he was a Quaker he was a Conscientious Objector and could not therefore become an officer. He operated the radio in a plane flying supplies over the Hump into China. He wrote a letter home every day, on onion skin paper with his fountain pen. I have five notebooks with these letters and haven't read them all. He shipped out before I was born and came home in June of 1945, when I was 20 months old.
My mother's father, David C. Simmons, served in World War I and died not too many years after the war.
These are the people I know of in my family who served in the military.
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Ronin -- Wow, thanks! My family talked so little about the past, and I'm only now beginning to look into things. As a school librarian, I 've found pictures and text in the Time-Life History of WW II and also a book about the Burma Rd. and at some point will read more. In my dad's letters, which were censored, he rarely could talk about what they were doing, and the only descriptive detail is from when they went up into the hills for R$R.
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