Uncle Earl

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My cousin Greg asked me to do a pen featuring the cover of a book he wrote about one of our shared uncles- Earl. Earl was married to my Dad's oldest sister Velma. Velma is still alive and was quite the pill in her day. She loved to have fun and could outdrink most men and play poker with the best of them. Earl was on the smallish side and was quiet. They were sort of opposites as couples go. Earl was always kind and quick to smile and laugh. If you lined up all the men from his generation at our family gatherings he would be the least likely to be picked out as a hero. Earl lived through the D-day invasion and was captured by the Germans a month later during the Battle of the Hedgerows. He was held in POW camps for the next 18 months. Earl also earned a Purple Heart at some point. In my mind he was a true American hero. Earl never talked about his war time experiences not even to his sons so we do not know the full story of what he actually lived through. While Greg did a lot of research for his book it it is still a fictional account. The cover does feature an authentic picture of Earl. You might say that Earl is the epitome of the saying you can't judge a book by its cover.
 

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Thanks for the title of the book. . I love these kinds of stories. . It is good to learn some of what that generation went through.

I am the next generation. . My dad and uncles and grandfathers went through all that WW1 and WW2 stuff.
I sometimes think it is impossible for even my generation to comprehend what all they went through.
And then there are my kids and grandkids ... totally impossible for them to have any idea what happened in the first half of the 20th Century.

But we owe an immeasurable amount to the generation of our fathers.
 
Thanks Cody, i just put a copy in my "cart". Spent an hour on the phone earlier tonight with my oldest sister...it was time to learn more about the great-grandparents and great-aunts/uncles who she knew, but had passed away early in my childhood. The coincidence of your post tells me i need to read this to help get to know some of my kinsmen better.
earl
 
greenacres2 said:
Thanks Cody, i just put a copy in my "cart". Spent an hour on the phone earlier tonight with my oldest sister...it was time to learn more about the great-grandparents and great-aunts/uncles who she knew, but had passed away early in my childhood. The coincidence of your post tells me i need to read this to help get to know some of my kinsmen better.
earl
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I feel very privileged to have known 4 of my uncles who were part of the Greatest Generation. Earl who I have already described, Ralph served in the Seabees building and repairing airstrips in the Pacific, Paul lost his left hand and part of a finger on his right hand during the Battle of the Bulge, and Edsel who was in the navy. Ralph ran a bulldozer into an unexploded bomb which to his good fortunate did not detonate a second time. These men never volunteered any information about their sacrifices. I really did not know much about Paul's experience until my daughter interviewed him for a school project. He was a softie for his great nieces and really opened up to her. I wish I knew more of all of their stories.
 
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