Uncle Ned had been wounded during the Battle of the Bulge in World War Two when a jeep he had been riding in hit was hit and knocked into a ditch by enemy artillery fire.
Uncle Ned lost an eye for his troubles, and spent the rest of the war moving from army hospital to army hospital first in Europe and then back in the states.
His final destination was an army hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan, where he met Aunt Junie who was working as a volunteer nurse's aide in the eye clinic.
Like many things during World War Two their romance progressed rapidly. They met, they fell in love, and the day that Uncle Ned was discharged from the army, a short two months after his arrival in Battle Creek, they were married, and on a bus back to South Dakota just in time for Uncle Ned to help his father and brothers with the spring planting of 1945.
Friday, March 16, 2007
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