re: Relatives that served in World War 2

Dad went across D-Day+4. He said he walked all the way from a Beach in France to Belgium. He and his 6 brothers all were drafted. All made it back.

He was in the woods at the Battle of the Bulge. For years he would only say it was very cold and they were poorly supplied to survive in the cold.

He began to talk about it about a year before he died, but only to me, because we had a common military background. I only listened and never tried to swap stories with him. It didn't seem right, but I knew he wanted me to know, so I listened.

He has been gone for almost 10 years now. My hero. I miss him a lot.