Today is Veterans Day, so I thought it would appropriated to show you a picture of Crystal Lake’s Ray Bradford.
I took it last Saturday morning at the First United Methodist Church’s United Methodist Men’s monthly breakfast.
Veterans and a few others gathered to relate something about what they did in their service to our country.
Bradford was on a ship has a machine and anti-aircraft gunner.
Others helped develop a massive tube-based computer for the Army Defense Security Agency that another of the men operated in Arizona.
One European theater WW II Vet summed up his role succinctly:
“My job was to kill Germans. Their job was to kill me.”
A sailor volunteered every chance he had in the Korean War and had about ten interesting assignments.
The group had one college graduate, who ended up as a clerk, describe his role in Vietnam has something like that of Radar O’Riley of “MASH” fame. Once, his captain told him to find a piano.
A man just back from Afghanistan was looking forward to going to college in January.
Many of the older men told of how the GI Bill had financed their educations.
A big THANK YOU to all Veterans.