Fear and Courage

Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

However, My focus on story telling right now is telling the awesome stories of some of the Vets I have interviewed like:

PFC Finney who served in Okinawa as a medic. Finney said he became a medic, when in basic he was reluctant to stab the "enemy dummy". His platoon sgt. sent him to a chaplain, who recommened he become a medic. He cannot understand why all the medics were not killed or injured like he was - "crawling from foxhole to foxhole stopping the bleeding of his wounded comrades. He did carry an M1 rifle and I asked him if he would have shot the enemies to protect his brothers in arms, and he replied definitely. Besides the Purple Heart, he received a Bronze Star.

 Spec. Dan Wright...



THE LAST OF THE HOGANS HEROS, THE LAST PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR (BOTH OF THESE MEDAL WINNING VETS ARE 97 NOW. Also my first WAC - a feisty 95 year old, who trained to be a machine gunner and she still is angry they would not let her in combat, yet her advice for future generations is "love everybody". I interviewed a 94 y. o. who parachuted into Normandy on Dday, was injured shortly thereafter, recovered in England and flew back to fight with Patton and his Tanks as an infantry man.