I’ve just begin a blog that will continue on most days for the next 18 months or so following my father’s exploits and adventures during WWII. Each blog will represent what he and the men with whom he was fighting were doing 80 years ago on the exact day of the blog. Here are last month’s blogs:

• January 1, 1944 – A teenage WWII hero was prepares to ship out – Part 1 – Fort Bragg
• January 2, 1944 – A teenage WWII hero prepares to ship out – Part 2 – Final leave
• January 3, 1944 – A teenage WWII hero prepares to ship out – Part 3 – Last visit with Marilyn
• January 4, 2024 – My hero would have turned 99 today
• January 10, 1944 – A teenage WWII hero prepares to ship out – Part 4 – Fort Meade Replacement Depot
• January 17, 1944 – A teenage WWII hero prepares to ship out – Part 5 – Coast Guard Beach Patrol
• January 19, 1944 – A teenage WWII hero prepares to ship out – Part 6 – Final letter home
• January 22, 1944 – The 3rd Infantry Division’s D-Day at the Anzio Italy Beachhead
• January 24, 2024 – A newly discovered eyewitness account of my father’s last WWII battle in which he lost his leg and almost his life
• January 30, 1944 – A teenage WWII hero prepares to ship out – Part 7 – Boarding the ship

You can read more about his heroics and exploits in At First Light: A True World War II Story of a Hero, His Bravery, and an Amazing Horse.

In case you haven’t read or listened to Dad’s book, you can learn more or order it here.

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