I was going to say "drafted". Without any coercion whatsoever, I placed my fingers on the keyboard and typed in the required information necessary to join, I enlisted! I have to go back quite a few years to explain my online name. My husband is a motorcycle enthusiast. Coming from a motorhead family of motorcycles and muscle cars, I found myself on the back of a softail, more times than I can count. .. hence "softail". In 1998, I shamed him into buying a couple of raffle tickets on a chance to win a brand new HD Fatboy - my ticked won!! YiPpEe!!! We had fun on that Fatboy for a year - until Uncle Sam decided he needed his share of the enjoyment. We had to sell the Fatboy to pay the additional income the winnings brought to Form 1040. ...hence the "x"softail. For many reasons I am drawn to the WWII era. My father was drafted on the "old man's" draft and my uncle, who was U.S. born and lived in Austria with his Austrian born wife, was taken prisoner and spent time in a concentration camp. When I was asked by the local Historical Society to work on their Fallen Soldier Project, I eagerly accepted, hoping it may bring light to the questions I've had all my life about my uncle's misfortune while living in Europe. It is the Project brings me here to your website. I will be posting questions in the forums. I'm hoping I will find some answers. Thank you for your efforts in enlightening, enriching, educating, and preserving the past. Denise
Welcome Denise, I appreciate a good into. Please ask anything you feel relevant, and of course please share your activity with the Fallen Soldier Project. When you are looking try out the search functions here, with some 670,000 posts we might have already have some useful nuggets buried somewhere.
Hi Denise. Welcome to the forum. If you'll give us some names, we'll try to help with your research. Tell us what you already know and we won't duplicate your efforts.
Your link works fine. Your questions require some research. Be patient. It will take some time. PS: I made your original request into its own thread.
