“This is the day we pay homage to all those who didn’t come home ... not Veterans Day, not a celebration, but a day of solemn contemplation over the cost of freedom.”
- Tamra Bolton

The Gotch

Hats off the the Merchant Marines that helped bring the war to an end.
They never fired a shot but their liberty ships were constantly being stalked by the German wolf packs.
Apparently 200 went to the bottom by way of enemy attacks bad weather and breaking up in the Atlantic.

SHOUT OUT to Blooming Grove Cemetery for placing an American Flag at my Dear late Disabled Navy Veteran Father's grave...crunchy peanut butter toast (upper left corner) was supplied by a Sister The Gotch

My grandfather on my dad's side was on the train headed to go over or into Boot camp when they singed the armistice during WW1.
He was conscripted.
My father at the time would have been about 4 years old and the only child in the family.
My father was of age for WW2 but they said he needed to stay and work the farm and raise peanuts.