On June 24, 1948, my dad was a 22 year old Airman wrapping Hershey bars in handkerchiefs in the back of a gooney bird. From '44-'46, he served in the Army seeing action in the ETO. After switching over to the Air Force, he retired in '66.
He had a box full of fruit salad but he was most proud and moved by this:
He spent almost 3 months in the back of a C-47 loading and unloading cargo and dropping bundles of candy to eagerly awaiting kids. He said some of those faces never left him.
July 4th is me mum's birthday and dad's was June 26th so every year we think of what he was doing on his birthday so many years ago.
Happy birthday dad, happy birthday mum and happy birthday America.
He had a box full of fruit salad but he was most proud and moved by this:
He spent almost 3 months in the back of a C-47 loading and unloading cargo and dropping bundles of candy to eagerly awaiting kids. He said some of those faces never left him.
July 4th is me mum's birthday and dad's was June 26th so every year we think of what he was doing on his birthday so many years ago.
Happy birthday dad, happy birthday mum and happy birthday America.
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