Eighty one years ago on this day.

[yellowdogintexas]

53. You can request them and the Congress person in your father's home district is where you start

However, depending on where they were when they were inducted, their records may have been destroyed in a huge warehouse fire in Missouri maybe 30 years ago. My father's records were in that warehouse.

Modern restoration technology has made a huge difference in salvaging these documents. My sister is researching to find our dad's records. We want to get his Bronze Star documentation, if you have it you can get a new medal. His original was destroyed (ironically) in a house fire in 1988.

We do know what he did to earn it; at least he told my mother that or maybe his sister told my mother.