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Free Research > S > Stone > Family StoryUse the free genealogy search to quickly discover your family history or share your own! MY GRANDFATHER
MY GRANDFATHER WAS OBERT MONROE STONE HE WAS BORN APRIL 14TH 1920 IN ENOLA ARKANSAS IN THE COUNTY OF FAULTNER TO HOMER M AND MERTYL H. STONE THE OLDEST SON OF 9 CHILDREN,HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN WORLD WAR 2 WHERE HE RECEAVED 3 BRONZE STARS 3SILVER STARS WITH CLOSTERS A PURPLE HART AND MEDAIL OF HONOR..
HE USE TO TELL ME HIS WAR STORYS AND OF THE HARDSHIPS HE FACED OVER IN GERMANY,THIS ONE STORY OUT OF A HUNDRED STOOD OUT IN MY MIND MORE THAN ANY ONE BESIDES THE LIBERATION OF DUNCU THE JEWISH CONSONTRATION CAMP... ANYWAY IT WAS A COLD MORNING ON THE 5TH OF JAN, THEY HAD ORDERS TO CROSS THE RHINE RIVER AT AN HR. BEFORE SUNUP. THEY PUT THIER PUNTOON BOATS IN THE WATER AND STARTED ACROSS WHEN GERMAN MACHEAN GUN FIRE OPENED UP ON THEM AS THEY STARTED CROSSING. THE MEN HE HAD FOUGHT BESIDE AND TRAINED WITH WADS BEING KILLED LEFT AND RIGHT, HE THOUGHT OF THE KIDS BACK HOME THEY WOULD NEVER SEE THIER DADDYS ANYMORE THE WIFES AND GIRLFRIENDS THAT WOULD NEVER BE HELT AGAIN. AS HIS BOAT HIT THE SHORE HE RAN AND STOOD UP PULLED THE PIN ON HIS GRANNADE AND THREW IT AT THE REPEATING FIRE LIGHT THEN HE FELL ON THE GROUND AS THAT ONE EXPLODED HE STOOD AND THREW HIS SECOND AT THE OTHER GERMAN POSSITION KNOCKING OUT BOTH MACHEANGUN NEST. IN THE PROSSES HE WAS WOUNDED IN HIS LEFT LEG THAT LEFT HIM WITH A LIMP THE REST OF HIS LIFE.. MY GRANDFATHER NEVER CONSITERED HIMSELF A HERO HE SAID "I DID WHAT HAD TO BE DONE AT THE TIME, I NEVER THOUGHT OF THE DANGER JUST THE BOYS THAT WOULD NEVER SEE THIER KIDS, WIFE, GIRLFRIENDS, MOMS OR DADS AGAIN." BUT THE GOVERMENT DIDN'T SEE IT THAT WAY....
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