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Metals & Honor

Metals & Honor - a proud & grateful daughter remembers her father.

Many years after my father died, my mother gave me a framed collection of my father’s World War II U.S. Army metals and insignia. The site icon on this website is one of them from which hangs his firearms qualifications: Rifle, Pistol-D, Rifle, Auto-Rifle. He was proud of his service and considered his years in the Maine National Guard and the Army during World War II as his most important…

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Army Wife WWII

As a start to Eres Books’s effort to give American Veterans an opportunity to tell their own stories, one of our authors has given us permission to publish her mother’s memoir of her life during the Second World War. Below is an introduction and an excerpt from Following the Troops: Life for an Army Wife 1941-1945. My mother loved to tell stories about her life and I loved to listen. When I grew…

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#fortitude #loss #patriotism #sacrifice #USArmy #WWII