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Memorial Day: owe eternal thanks

My father was 52 when he passed. He was buried in the old pioneer cemetery in Williams, Oregon. He grew up in Chicago IL one of 11 children during the Great Depression.

Times were hard during the 1930’s and my grandfather and his oldest sons all worked hard to feed the rest of the family. Food was scarce so my grandfather allowed my dad to join the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne when he was 19-yrs old in…

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