Diary of a Replacement Soldier

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About the Author

“In high school I wanted to be a doctor. The editors of our year book suggested that I might end up as a cartoonist. When war came, I yearned to join the national effort and at the age of seventeen I enlisted in the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program. From the campus of the University of Delaware, I was sent to Arkansas for Infantry Basic Training when I was eighteen, and then to Europe to join the 103rd Infantry Division as a rifleman replacement where I had a second row seat to some of the events of the last days of the war in Europe. With the generosity of the GI Bill, my country provided me with the means to an education and a career and I was more than rewarded for my efforts to serve my country. In this memoir, I yielded to the desire to share with others some of the day to day episodes, as I saw them, of a war that was falling apart for the ones who started it.”