My dad, Joe C. Andrew was with the 82nd Airborne, 508th, Hqs Company.

He jumped into Holland and on D-Day and never talked about the war, except only in bits and pieces. He spent 28 years in the U.S, Army and retired as a CWO-4.
Dad was part of the honor guard that stayed in Frankfurt, Germany after the war ended. He found a boy there trying to get food and the kid was walking over a pile of hand Grenades. Dad sort of adopted him and his family and they became life-long friends.

He was a First SGT at the end of the war and later while stationed in Italy, he took us on a vacation to Germany. We visited some sites in the Ardenes and several battle sites. Dad even took us to one of the foxholes that he and his buddy were in. He said his friend was shot and died in his arms. He also pointed out an Inn that the Germans and Americans used when one side pushed the other side out of the area. This was in 1956. I know I heard him cry out in the night for several months after the visit. And when we were stationed in Germany I could tell that he harbored some hard feelings toward the German men of military age that had fought in WW II.
~ Rodney Andrew

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