Message of the Day – A Cap and a World War II Veteran

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.


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