Bob McCarty Writes

For the third consecutive year, I’ve chosen the days leading up to Memorial Day as appropriate for honoring all of those who paid the ultimate price in service to their country by publishing war stories written by my father, Ted, who served as a low-ranking enlisted man in the U.S. Army during World War II and returned home wounded, but alive.

The stories first appeared in my father’s self-published 1992 autobiography, “Some Events in One Life: Mine!“  Not published for any commercial gain, he printed only a dozen or so copies of that book as a means to provide his six children — including yours truly — and their heirs a personal look at his participation in one of history’s most-harrowing events, World War II.

Links to each of those installments, 12 in all, appear below:

• My Father’s War Stories From World War II — Part One

• My Father’s War Stories From World War II — Part Two

• My Father’s War Stories From World War II — Part Three

• My Father’s War Stories From World War II — Part Four

• My Father’s War Stories From World War II — Part Five

• My Father’s War Stories From World War II — Part Six

• My Father’s War Stories From World War II — Part Seven

• My Father’s War Stories From World War II — Part Eight

• My Father’s War Stories From World War II — Part Nine

• My Father’s War Stories From World War II — Part Ten

• My Father’s War Stories From World War II — Part Eleven

• My Father’s War Stories From World War II — Part Twelve

Read them.  Appreciate them.  Share them.

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See also: ‘We All Came Home Alive!’