Memorial Day Is About Remembering

By Joey KennedyB-Metro

My father-in-law, Norman Pike, would never talk about his service in World War II. About all he told us was that he was an Army cook in Europe after D-Day. But he left World War II with two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. His back was scarred from shrapnel wounds.

Norman was either one helluva cook — or the very worst cook ever.

I’ll be thinking of Norman on the last Monday of this month — Memorial Day. While he wasn’t killed in the war, we knew the war was eating at him, probably until his death in 1985.It is not uncommon that military veterans from any war find it difficult to talk about their combat experiences.

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