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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [QB] ... in The War? I don't mean Vietnam, or the Gulf. Nor Korea, or 'The War To End All Wars.' Whenever anyone mentions 'The War' at a Benson Family Reunion, there's only one War they're talking about. World War II. My Grandfather -- George C. Benson -- had sixteen brothers and sisters. Two brothers served in Europe in WWI, and my Grandfather -- a Captain in the National Guard -- landed in Europe a few weeks after D-Day. He doesn't talk about what happened over there much, but the top half of his ear is still over there somewhere. Other Great-Uncles and assorted Cousins also served in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific. My mother's father (he died before I was born, so it's hard to think of him as 'grandpa') went to Pearl Harbor after the attack and ran a Navy supply depot. Ironicly, quite a few cousins of his -- his parents came over from Germany after World War I -- served in the Germany army. I don't think I've ever known anyone as strong as my Grandpa -- I've got great memories of him cutting paths through the woods on his farm in his mid-eighties. He's in his late nineties now, having outlived all his brothers and sisters (the first of whom died in a trench in France so many years ago). It doesn't cease to amaze me with such reverence they speak about Franklin D. Roosevelt (my grandfather to this day refuses to believe he couldn't walk), General Eisenhower, and the men they served with. What did your ancestors do during the War? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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