catherines confessions

This is just a short comment about yesterday's PhotoHunt Theme. If you are visiting Anna's Adornments for the first time, you may want to back to yesterday's post. This is a blog about jewellery-making. But Tnchick's PhotoHunt theme made me write about my father. Anna's Adornment is not a top blog. I don't get that many visitors. But yesterday's post about Daddy's time in Europe during World War II gave me 22 comments! I have tried to comment back and thank everyone who left a comment, but if I have missed you, please be patient. I've got to work an eight-hour shift today and only have a few minutes to post this. I will write another post about Daddy, because so many other bloggers have inspired me with their stories ! Thank you everyone for writing your stories and visiting others sites! Happy Sunday! Anna

This is my father's grave. He was a veteran of World War II. But he did not die in the war. He survived and lived to the age of 88. I would like to honor his memory for this PhotoHunt theme #186, "Veterans/Military". Daddy was a quartermaster in the US army and spent time in Belgium, France, and Southern England. He became an officer because he had a college degree from Columbia University, in New York, USA. He almost never ever spoke of his time in the army in Europe. He was drafted, and being of Swedish descent, he took it as a good omen that he was shipped out on a formerly Swedish ship that the US government used, rented, bought or borrowed, to transport troops to Europe. He came home five years later, when the war ended with the atomic bomb being dropped on Japan. But if that had not been done, he would have been sent to the Pacific. And my brother and I may not ever have been born. My paternal grandmother said that he was a young healthy boy when he went away, and ...