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In reply to the discussion: Check in if your dad was in The Big One! [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)keep the crew of mechanics he managed up with the leading edge of the allied air-offensive.
He saw the most horrific things and though I saw him struggle with his faith frequently (practically every Sunday), he NEVER gave up his hope for humanity, I think in part, because he found an appropriate medium to manifest that hope in, the post war Labor movement. He was one of those who came together with a few others to start the first Pipefitters' local in the state of Kansas. He didn't like to talk about the war, EVER, but used to tell us stories at the dinner table (when he was home for a while) about the struggles and problems of workers on the enormous construction projects in which he was once again a foreman for one of the crews of pipefitters.