Dad
Unites States Marine Corps, 1946
He has a slightly apprehensive, ambiguous expression here.
About Me
- Jonathan
- Adalbert is a forum for me, to post ephemera, photography, poetry, occasional travel notes, and various spontaneous motions. Cover photo: Parsonage where my great-grandfather spent his early years. Taken near Liegnitz, Silesia, ca. 1870. The "xothique" portion of the web address is a nod to Clark Ashton Smith's fictional continent of Zothique.
Did he look upon his service favorably?
ReplyDeleteNo, he was negative toward it... Kind of brutalizing for him I gathered. More than that I think it was growing up during the Depression and the WWII period in general that scarred him, I think. J.
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