Post by riley on Dec 27, 2011 23:48:01 GMT -5
Hi,
My grandfather was in Company A, 81st Combat Engineer Battalion. He passed in 1974 and his bag was stolen when he returned from Europe and according to my mother and uncle he refused to talk about the war. All we have is his discharge paper and a few v-mail letters he was sending to my grandmother (I'll post a scan of them when I have access to a scanner).
For a christmas present for my mother I found out the gist of what he did and to my surprise my family had no idea he was awarded the distinguished unit citation. She was absolutely speechless and wants to find out more.
I don't have much time tonight so I'll search around the discussion board tomorrow and explore some of the links.
The biggest questions are 1)Would anyone know if there is any chance of getting the patch (or medal) from the army this many years later, even if it was given to him and stolen. 2)We have no pictures of him in uniform and would love to see pictures of company A.
Anyway, great board and thankyou to whoever put it together.
Riley
Note: also see this post: 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=looking&thread=668&page=1
My grandfather was in Company A, 81st Combat Engineer Battalion. He passed in 1974 and his bag was stolen when he returned from Europe and according to my mother and uncle he refused to talk about the war. All we have is his discharge paper and a few v-mail letters he was sending to my grandmother (I'll post a scan of them when I have access to a scanner).
For a christmas present for my mother I found out the gist of what he did and to my surprise my family had no idea he was awarded the distinguished unit citation. She was absolutely speechless and wants to find out more.
I don't have much time tonight so I'll search around the discussion board tomorrow and explore some of the links.
The biggest questions are 1)Would anyone know if there is any chance of getting the patch (or medal) from the army this many years later, even if it was given to him and stolen. 2)We have no pictures of him in uniform and would love to see pictures of company A.
Anyway, great board and thankyou to whoever put it together.
Riley
Note: also see this post: 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=looking&thread=668&page=1