My grandpa served in WWI in an engineering corps. My other grandfather went to Germany after WWII before the Marshall Plan was introduced.

I missed out on a lot of stories because people lived so far away from us.

My father served in WWII, Royal Canadian Dragoons.

He did not tell many stories, most of them did not say much at all. Perhaps only to each other.

He shared a few things with me not long before he died. It was hard to listen and to watch him cry.

The cousin who served as a pilot was in WWII. He was shot down and killed during the Korean war. This was Truman Madsen’s older brother. Mom