Welty, Grandpa, Dad, Sherwood Thorson
On this date 71
years ago my parents did what they usually did on a Sunday, they went to
spend time with my grandparents. Sometimes it was to the Millers where everyone
but Mom spoke German. Sometimes it was to the Arnolds which was an open-door
gathering house near Bonfield for their nine kids and many grandkids. Uncle
Welty, Uncle Sherwood and Dad discussed the attack and wondered if the three of
them would be drafted soon. Grandpa told them since they were all farming they
would be deferred as in some other wars. He was right as they were never
drafted. Dad developed a hernia and that later on kept him out of the army. After a trip
to the ER about 1954 he had surgery for it. Thanks to Aunt Dorothy for telling
me this piece of family lore.
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