bOObzman's blog post - WWII vet celebrates 90th B-day....................

We celebrated my uncle's 90th b-day today at his assisted care home. He has his health problems including alzheimer's but he is still spry. Has a great sense of humor and keeps everyone laughing. Uncle was a paratrooper and jumped into Normandy on D-Day.Eventually made his way to Berlin.Among his WWII pics are many of him with pretty women. Unfortunately he cannot tell us anything about them anymore.Both he and his brother played the concertina and accordians and always told me that if you played an instrument and had a bottle of whiskey you could always have a good time - especially with the ladies.
While in Berlin he had a German girlfriend whose missing husband had been a Nazi SS officer. Well, guess who shows up one day? Right, the missing husband,desperate for help from his wife in Allied occuppied Berlin.Hunted, he had made his way back to his home only to find a U.S.Army Sergeant sitting in his living room. He was holding his Luger on my uncle and was about to shoot him when the wife shot her husband in the back,killing him.I got this story from the brothers about 10 years ago when we sat around the kitchen table,them playing and singing Polish polkas while I did the drinking.I wish I had recorded that wonderful Saturday afternoon with my uncles.
Today he played and sang for all of us as I recorded him. He had the whole place singing and swaying. I think a couple tried to polka but kinda tough with strollers and walkers!
We watched some old home movies of long gone relatives at the summer home,him riding his Harley and working on his beloved Model A Fords. Family is precious and so are the times of our lives.