FYI: MY FATHER-IN-LAW Jim was born in January 1927, the sixth of eight children, to an Irish-American couple in Philadelphia. During the Second World War, his three older brothers were in the armed services. That meant that Jim, barely age 16, had to quit high school and enter the work world, so he could earn an adult’s wage. His salary must have been critical to the family’s economic stability.
Jim’s brother Bill was killed in an accident at sea during ship maintenance in 1944, two months before the D-Day invasion. You can find Bill’s name engraved on one of the plaques in New York City’s Battery Park. But I recently came across a different sort of memorial—a document that tells my father-in-law’s wartime story and the quiet heroism he exhibited.
Regards,
Ted
https://humbledollar.com/2019/08/quiet-heroism/
