Ray Marvin Olmsted
A WWII verteran, Dad never talked much about the war when I was a younger. Maybe it was partly my attitude about the then Vietnam War.
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A few years ago during a visit I asked if he still had his old Ike jacket. I used to sneak it out of the house and wear it to high school.
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He told me then he’d served in Algeria, North Africa and was in Oran when Rommel was there to stop Germans from entering.
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He was a Corporal 5th Grade Mortorpool Technician attached to Yankee Division.
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And served 5 years. Each gold bar equals 6 months and the blue slash equals 3 years.
A WWII verteran, Dad never talked much about the war when I was a younger. Maybe it was partly my attitude about the then Vietnam War.
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A few years ago during a visit I asked if he still had his old Ike jacket. I used to sneak it out of the house and wear it to high school.
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He told me then he’d served in Algeria, North Africa and was in Oran when Rommel was there to stop Germans from entering.
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He was a Corporal 5th Grade Mortorpool Technician attached to Yankee Division.
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And served 5 years. Each gold bar equals 6 months and the blue slash equals 3 years.
He learned to be a mechanic which served him well when returning home. He worked for his father-in-law at first in a small local service station then moved to a Cadillac dealer and went from mechanic to Service Manager before retiring about 45 years later.
Dad at my birthday party in S Texas in 2005
My Dad had a couple strokes starting about two years ago. He currently lives in a nursing home in South Texas, and isn’t very happy about it.
I don’t usually support wars because they don’t resolve much. Yet I wasn’t alive for WWII, so I thank my Dad and all the other people who went to war to protect our country.
Happy Memorial Dad!
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