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Thanks for telling his story. My grandfather was captured in the Battle of the Bulge. One of the regiments that was not slaughtered by the Germans. He spent time in England from Trench Foot. Never got his purple heart. It was lost in transit. He gave up his pension when the doctor called him "fat boy". He got up and walked out. He was a man hardened from his experience. But cared for and loved his family. He was not much of a talker. I was scared of him growing up. After my grandmother died he had to depend on his family to help take care of him and we ALL pitched in. I sat down one day to talk about the war. I got out a tape recorder and he looked at me and said NO. I explained I wanted an account in his words of what he went threw. He would not talk until I put the recorder away. His was a generation that did what they had to do. They did it well, but it was hard to be DUMPED OFF back home and try to forget what they experienced. I love him and miss him so much. He wanted no recognition for what he had done, just made the best life he could for his family.