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A Legacy of Loss
An Anniversary of Loss
I feel sorry for my brother, its his birthday on the 7th of February, and it is the Death anniversary of our Dad, barely two years after retiring from the Army, he sounded the retreat for the last time. In those days, you retired at 54, if you were a General, earlier at lower ranks.
https://adilo.bigcommand.com/watch/7fWFvTux
Kind of mind-boggling today- especially as I am much older and still working.
And so, after waiting to retire so that he could write the books he said he wanted to write.
He just didn’t, so we are left without his huge legacy, apart from a handful of stories, and he was close-lipped about his active service both at the very end of WWII, and in multiple operations later, as well as two rotations with the United Nations in Gaza.
All we are left with are a couple of photos and a few cryptic stories.
