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Oklahoma funeral home inviting public to funeral for WWII veteran with no known surviving family
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Oklahoma funeral home inviting public to funeral for WWII veteran with no known surviving family
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I have an uncle who fought in Patton's Third Army during the push into Germany and I had badgered him for years to tell me about his experiences, but he always just deflected until one day at a family reunion he opened up. By the time he was through talking, he was in tears and so was the rest of the family. It made me ashamed that I had ever pestered him about it for my own morbid curiosity. I worked on drilling rigs, saw some gruesome accidents and a few deaths, but my experiences paled in comparison to what he saw on a near-daily basis.
Up until that time, all my uncle would say would be slams against the army. He was a minister, but came close to cursing Patton several times. "Old Blood and Guts? Yeah, his guts, our blood." My uncle's close up and personal account of history does not quite match up with that written about in the history books.
I've thought of recounting some of what he told us that day in my LP blog, but just never could bring myself to do it. I used to wonder about one side of my uncle's face; he was a red head w/ a ruddy complexion and with one side of his cheek pitted and pockmarked with what I figured had to have been a bad case of acne as a young man, but I found out that day it was a gunpowder scar from some hand-to-hand combat, the German Mauser going off next to his face. That was when he broke down, telling about that horrible incident...he didn't go into all the details, but since he lived to tell the story, I could figure out what eventually happened in that fight to the death. I think it was nearly as horrible for him to remember and recount that as it had been for him to live it.
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