Showing posts with label WWll Prisoner Of War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWll Prisoner Of War. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Missing In Action

She kept right on writing to her son even though the letters from him had stopped. She prayed and wrote in the hopes...
 that some would reach him.

She kept the letters that were returned and wrote more!
Three or more per week she wrote, as the letters came back, "Return To Sender"
"Missing In Action."

She never lost faith that her son was alive.
Even when she read in her hometown newspaper about his unit being wiped out!
The Times Herald depicted a somber story of the First and Third Ranger Battalions....
  fighting to the death of the very last man in Italy.

She held fast to her belief that here youngest son Roy.....
 was okay!

A shoe box full of letters from the past that she saved all the years of her life... is a testament to my loving Grand Mother  Edith C. Hill Badgerow.
As children, we are never told  the story of the strength, that our ancestors possessed....
or of the hardships they had to endure.


Sunday, June 18, 2017

Every Day Is Fathers Day









Yes! Everyday is FATHERS DAY!
Not a day goes by that I don't miss you! As the days turn to years I often bring back the good times that we shared. 
To know you, was to love you sir. 
You were born in 1923, in the month of May, on the 25th. 

You were only 20 years old when you were wounded and captured by the Germans. 
When you turned 21 you were a POW held in Stalag 344 in Poland.

Update: May 29, 2021 
He would have been 98 years young 4 days ago!
Happy belated Birthday Sir!

Some day in the future I will be unable to update this blog.
I will be gone, down that road that we all must travel, 
after  our life is spent.
If you read this, 
do not lament.
I am with my wife who passed before me, my Dad, Mom, Brothers,
 and all who watched over me from above or here on Earth, 
 in my life time.
That's it for now. 
I will post more in the future,
 God willing.

UPDATE!
OCT.2,2021
I have started writing more!
In hope that some day you would read
this!
I hope you enjoy it even 1/2 as much reading it
as I did writing it.

UPDATE:
November 11, 2021
One day I will not be able to post. 
My Dad Roy! 
Thanks to you and all
veterans! 
Happy Veterans Day.....to Grandfather Roy to my children &
Great Grandfather Roy to theirs. 
Remember Every Day Is Veterans Day!
"Thank a vet today and then thank a veteran tomorrow."

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The Cost OF Freedom Is High








Please remember, not all were able to come home. Many, so very many..... paid the ultimate price for our freedom.
Posted by WWII POW on Wednesday, June 24, 2015