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 I think of and Honor my Dad every 9/11 as well as every Memorial Day, Veteran's Day and, well, EVERY DAY!  Dad is Forever a Hero to me for his WWII Service to Freedom.  I spent most of my life trying to cajole him into recording his WWII story for posterity.  He refused for decades but finally agreed in the mid-90's.  This book is the result of that effort. I learned recently that Google is going to delete a blog I made for my Dad so I created a new one.  I also uploaded his book to some fresh web hosting services so you can read it whenever you wish. https://www.calameo.com/books/0074628556c120dd6f9bc https://online.fliphtml5.com/egfeu/fegk/ When Dad was shot down on February 21, 1944, he was taken into a brutal life as a Nazi prisoner of war.  The Nazis took his picture on February 22, 1944, and here it is. Dad was about 150 pounds when this picture was taken.  After surviving four Nazi prison camps and the infamous Death March, he weighed 73 pounds when liberated by Patton&