Monday, March 29, 2021

Brief comment on post-war life ...

 


Two personal comments on Chapter 18 …

My Dad mentions only a few people by name in A Shower of Frogs. One of them was Leonardo Coppola of Nogales [the book says Nogales, Mexico but I’m not sure of that. Perhaps it was Arizona.]  And as far as I know, Coppola was the only WWII comrade he ever got together with after the war, although I think he corresponded with some (e.g., Stubby).

This chapter also highlights hunger: my dad wasn’t a beefy guy in the first place, but after the war, he was positively thin. Still physically strong with a strong appetite. And he never gained weight after coming home.

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