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My father was not a hero. At least not in the sense that my friend's father, Ernie Basso, was a hero. Ernie was in the thick of the fighting at the Battle of the Bulge. I knew him later as a gentle man, a loving family man and a man who was always ready for a joke and laughter. But at night the war came back to him and he would regularly wake up screaming. During the day talking to his customers at the barber shop, and in the evenings surrounded by his family he could keep the war away, but at night his def
My father wasn't a hero, but that is not to say that he did not have courage. When his country needed him, he did not hesitate to answer the call. He trained for war and expected to fight in the war. He faced that expectation with courage, just like millions of other GI's. Once, when I asked him what he did in the war, he told me that he was the greatest waste of manpower in the history of the US Army. By that, he meant that he followed orders and did all that was asked of him. After joining up he was sent