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ArleneMach's avatar

This is deeply meaningful to me. As a boy Stalin’s soldiers murdered my father’s family, leaving him an orphan, at what age unknown. He was in a displaced persons (DP) camp for years. When he was going to be shipped to Siberia a Christian org helped him escape. During the escape they were rounded up into a barn by Nazi’s and were going to be burned alive. How did they get out? US soldiers saved them. My father made it to the USA, alone, at the age of 13. I don’t think I will ever know the details of his youth, he never talked about it. We didn’t know his real name until after he died. But I am reading about the time 1937 to 1950, in an attempt to understand, and find compassion for, the man that was my father, who was sadly broken.

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Michael Guenon's avatar

Our eldest son was deployed to Iraq, ‘06-‘07, as a part of the Iraqi police transition program, which he believed had little utility. Our son was an Air Force security forces NCO, retired a couple of years ago. He has worked his way through PTSD and physical disabilities. Seems to be in a better place today.

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