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LAST MAN STANDING - "College Girl" - Jonathan Taylor Thomas makes a special guest star appearance when he reunites with Tim Allen, his dad from "Home Improvement." When the less-than-studious Mandy gets accepted to not one but two colleges, Kristin realizes it's time to reevaluate where she is in her life. While out on a special date with Ryan, she is pleasantly surprised to see Jon (Thomas), a former co-worker from the diner where she still works, who is now the successful owner of a hip, upscale restaurant. Meanwhile, Mike and Vanessa wonder if Mandy's college choice, a party school in California, is right for her; and Eve gets help with her Junior ROTC competition from neighbor Chuck Larabee, on the Season Finale of "Last Man Standing," FRIDAY, MARCH 22 (8:00-8:31 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/CARIN BAER) TIM ALLEN, NANCY TRAVIS, AMANDA FULLER, JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS, JORDAN MASTERSON
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Bookstock is the largest used book sale in metro Detroit. However, for one woman, it turned out to be something more."I was definitely meant to be here this morning at this moment," said Debbie Levin.If you've ever doubted that miracles happen somewhere every day, this story could change your mind.There are more than 200,000 books at Bookstock. The statistics aren't official, but you could say the odds of what happened in Livonia on Sunday morning are about one in a million.A volunteer handed Levin a copy of "Fiddler in the Kitchen" written in 1982 by the Detroit chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women. She noticed something was folded between the pages of the book, so she gave it a shake. She was not prepared for what fell out."My own mother's recipe... in my mother's handwriting, and it's her original recipe," Levin said. "It isn't her cookbook because I have all her cookbooks. She passed away about two years ago."The recipe was for Doris Levin's famous apple chocolate chip cake. It was her signature dish. She knew the recipe by heart, but likely wrote it out for a friend, who eventually folded it up and stuffed it in the pages of a book that later found its way to its destined owner.Doris Levin died just a year and a half after her husband, family says, of a broken heart. It's a pain you never quite get over, but for her daughter, it's a reminder that her mother in some way is still here."I'm like overwhelmed that I would find my own mom's [recipe] here. I know she's watching me now. Very happy," Levin said.
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It was unlikely setting to visit with one of the most unlikely stars on the professional golf circuit. At the Discovery World museum on the Milwaukee lakeshore, I had a chance to meet 2013 PGA Champion Jason Dufner. He was in town to help launch ticket pre-registration for the 2015 PGA Championship coming back to Whistling Straits for the third time. The Auburn University graduate has immense talent but is one of the most stoic, unemotional players on tour. That's not to say he doesn't have a big sense of humor. His "Dufnering" pose went viral last year and he talked about his slouched, sitting pose at a grade school visit, saying he was rather bored and simply wanted to sit on the floor. He had no idea it would become a Youtube and instragram smash, copied by fellow tour players and fans alike. There's no denying his game however. At Oak Hill last summer, Dufner put up record breaking scores, including a second round 63 on his way to his first major victory. After the press conference, I spent a couple of minutes with Jason to discuss his on course demeanor, his rise to the top and his anticipated return to the Straits in August of next year.
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This salad uses my Low Fat Vegenaise Alternative. If you use regular vegenaise, the calories will be much higher so you might want to cut back on the amount of mayo? If you have't tried my mayo recipe, what are you waiting for? It is really good!
Last week, I was browsing blogs and I came across someone who mentioned using black salt in their chickpea tuna recipe. For the life of me, I can't remember who it was, so if it's YOU let me know so I can link back to your blog! ... anyway... so the idea of black salt in chickpea salad sounded so good I had to try it.
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Vegan Georgia! Thanks for the idea!
Chickpea Salad
2 c cooked and drained chickpeas
½ c celery
2 c shredded carrots
¼ c onion, minced
2 T mustard
½ t black salt
2 T relish
½ c mayonnaise
Ground pepper
2 t marjoram
½ t chipotle
2 T nutritional yeast
½ t lemon pepper
Pinch garlic powder
Salt/Pepper to taste
Mash the chickpeas a bit with a fork, add the rest of the ingredients and mix well. Let salad sit for an hour ( or even better, overnight ) before serving
Curried Chickpea Variation :
Remove relish, marjoram and chipotle
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If you could do a shot of Jose Cuervo with anyone -- dead or alive -- who would it be?
Ryan Gosling
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Ryan Gosling
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"Bitch" - Meredith Brooks (I swear I'm not one!)
My first job
Sales Associate at DeLia's
Piercings/Tattoos (How many? Where?)
Piercings....ear, cartlidge, and belly!
Mac or PC?
MAC babaayy!
Nintendo, Xbox 360, PS3, or don't game?
In Dix Hills....Nintendo and PS3 but I am the face of XBOX DC2! That's the first system I am going to buy when I get a chance.
What fun fact, talent or superpower of yours should guys know about?
I am always in the know :o)
What's the most memorable pick up line you've ever heard?
There's soo many but I think now it's funniest when guys use my little yorkie as a pick-up tool when they approach me.
What's the craziest thing you've ever done?
Well one of the craziest things....Streak in my friend's neighborhood when I was in middle school. Yup I did it.
What's the most unusual place you've ever hooked up? How'd it go?
In my kitchen. It was great. Don't kill me mom.
What's in your purse or pocket right now?
Cellphone + cardholder + of course my lip gloss!
What do you feel most comfortable wearing?
Dresses :)
Would you rather have boring sex all the time or an amazing romp once a year?
Amazing romp once a year!
What is your Axe personality?
If I could choose more than one I would say a mix between the Flirty Girl and Party Girl. However, I definitely identify more with the flirty girl. I love to go out and meet new people and in doing so I need the guy that can be independent when we are out together. If I can be in the same room as a boyfriend of mine but we each are able to do our "own thing" then I have the ideal relationship. We don't need each other, but we definitely compliment each other. So this Flirty Girl personality I would describe as fun, strong, sexy, and intelligent. She knows what she wants and she can have fun with who she wants and when she wants. It's all innocent fun, most of the time.


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My 8 month old was just diagnosed yesterday (Also, ear infection and possibly asthma triggered by the virus). He is not wheezing today, but still very fast labored breathing compared to normal. I am freaking out at work today, even though daddy is home with him today and is very capable.
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The latest edition to the Rapha base layer range is made from an even lighter, finer merino than Rapha's regular base layers. Ideal for spring and summer riding, the yarn of the V-neck is beautiful to the touch and transfers moisture away from the skin superbly. The base layer's V-cut neck makes it ideal to be worn with buttoned shirts for a smarter appearance, perfect for the city bike rider.
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AGCO will introduce its new RG700 RoGator self-propelled sprayer this fall featuring a 700-gal. capacity and a Tier 4i-compliant engine, the manufacturer announced. It marks the company's first application equipment to be launched following the discontinuation of the smaller-capacity SpraCoupe line in May.
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Sony is going to release the hot new A65 24.3 MP Digital SLR
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The A65 from Sony features 24.3 megapixels and up to 10 fps. You can shoot great dynamic photos and make HD movies in the best available quality. The Translucent Mirror Technology is simply unbeatable.
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UPDATE: According to authorities, the suspect was a relative of the secretary at the school. The suspect was said to have walked in the building and asked the secretary for money, but when she said no he allegedly threatened her.
He was then said to have left and the secretary called authorities. From there, Marksville High and Elementary issues a"Code Red" to put the school on lockdown.
Shortly afterwards, the children were allowed to be dismissed from school.
Marksville High and Elementary Schools were put on lockdown Friday morning when a man was said to have come into the school and threatened a secretary, according to Superintendent Dwayne Lemoine.
No description of the suspect has been released at this time.
Matt Jordan is continuing to follow this story.
UPDATE: According to Police Chief Ellis Walker, children are being released from school. No update on whether the suspect has been captured.
Marksville High and Elementary Schools were put on lockdown on Friday morning when a man was said to have come come into the school and threatened a secretary, according to Superintendent Dwayne Lemoine. The man was also said to have a weapon, but we are not sure at this time what the weapon was.
Matt Jordan is still at the school working on more details.
UPDATE: The school remains on lockdown at this time, but we are told the children are safe!
According to Superintendent Dwayne Lemoine, a man walked into the school and threatened the secretary with some sort of weapon, but at this time we are not sure what type of weapon. The man is said to have left the campus, but the school will remain on lockdown until he is apprehended.
A description of the suspect has not been release at this time. We will let you know more as we know more!
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MARKSVILLE, La. (KALB News Channel 5) –Marksville High and Elementary are on lockdown.
According to Superintendent Dwayne Lemoine, a man came to the high school campus this morning and threatened the secretary. At that time they called Marksville Police Department and Avoyelles Parish Sheriff's Office.
The schools has been placed on lockdown while law enforce enforcement secure the campuses.
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After the colourful poster of Parineeti Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Ali Zafar and Govinda, Yash Raj Films have released the official trailer of 'Kill Dil' which has a catchy dialogues and interesting plot. Dialogues like 'Ek baat bata, log marne ke baad kya tara ban jate hain', 'Hmmmmm zinda l
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Winter's icy grip should not adapt itself to the grip of your hand. After all, with the absence of insulating fat and the subjugation to direct windchill, your hands take the brunt of bad weather while you're in the saddle. To combat the cold, Craft made the Hybrid Weather Gloves. A glove within a glove, the Hybrid Weather Gloves not only insulate your hands, but they'll protect them from the snow, wind, and rain as well. If you have four seasons, these gloves will have covered for at least three of them.
Craft's Hybrid Weather Gloves are a two-in-one glove made from a blend of exclusive Craft fabrics. For easy shift and brake lever functionality, the exterior of the inner-glove features silicone grippers at the fingers and palm. Additionally, the pointer finger and thumb tips are smartphone compatible, meaning that they can effectively swipe and select on a phone's touch screen. The inner-lining uses the soft brushed Flex fleece fabric that is not only warming, but also adds an extra layer of windproof protection. The exterior of the inner-glove is made from a laminated polyester knit with an elastic microporous film. Together, the layers' fabric blend makes for a hand-conforming glove that's windproof, waterproof, and highly breathable.
For colder weather, the inner-glove can be paired with the Vent Air Wind removable mitten. This mitten works as an encapsulating shell that adds additional warmth and element protection to the inner-glove. The mitten is also windproof, waterproof, and features a reflective print for safer night riding.
The Craft Hybrid Weather Gloves are available in sizes from X-Small to X-Large, and in the colors Amino and Black.
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I have these in neon yellow and love them. I usually wear a liner underneath and have ridden this entire winter and rarely been cold. Last Saturday was 10 degrees and I rode forty miles, the last ten in a blizzard, and my fingers got very cold. I imagine there are no gloves that will keep you warm on a bike ride in a polar vortex. Still, these did a pretty darn good job! Also love the bright yellow, IDK why CC does not carry those ones. Trick- buy these in the off season--- bought mine last summer for 20$ on amazon
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I bought these gloves for the single fact of not having to switch between gloves and windproof mittens in the winter.
First Impressions: Nice light, soft, tight material, keeps hands warm. Fairly durable, although I haven't crashed with these. I have smaller hands w/ long fingers so I went with a size Small and they fit perfect. The wrist on these gloves is tight (I have a 16cm wrist and it leaves little room). I also like this though because it will keep water and snow out.
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Edward Kemp Anderson
Interviewed by Michael Edward Anderson
27 May 2012
Oral History Program
Weber State University
Stewart Library
Ogden, Utah
Edward Kemp Anderson
Interviewed by
Michael Edward Anderson
27 May 2012
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Edward and Floris
Edward and Floris
Abstract: The following is an oral history interview with Edward Kemp Anderson.
Mr. Anderson was born on December 20, 1925 and raised in Lewiston, Utah.
This interview discusses his early life before, during and shortly after World War
II. On December 21, 1943 Edward received his draft notice the day after his 18th
birthday. Edward married his wife Floris on December 30, 1943 just before
departing for military service. He continued to serve in the war until 1946, one
year after the war ended. The interview was conducted on May 27, 2012 by his
son, Michael Edward Anderson in the Anderson home in Washington, Utah. Also
present during the interview is Edward's wife, Floris Thomas Anderson.
MEA: I was just thinking that the World War II experience is part of our family history
and I think that it needs to be written down and shared with all of us. Not
necessarily blood and guts kind of stuff, I'm not going to ask you those kinds of
things just simple history. I always think it's neat to hear about when you were
gone that mom paid for a house, you know while you were gone.
EKA: Bought a house while I was gone for eight-hundred dollars.
FTA: Two years and—I don't remember how much the payments were.
MEA: So when I go into Lewiston then I tell the kids, "You know, they lived right there,
that little house near Theurer's Market. Mom bought and paid for that." It's neat
for them to think, "We have roots in Lewiston."
FTA: Great grandpa was in the front of that in the shoe shop, he mended shoes there.
MEA: I always tell them about Uncle Alma. We used to go over to the flower shop and
that there was a greenhouse there and we used to run around and play in that.
Now, they don't see that of course, it's just a house there in Lewiston so there's a
lot of history. None of us has that. These are just simple questions to help us get
going and see what you think. The first thing I was wondering was, what were
you doing before you joined the military? You weren't very old.
EKA: I was just working on the farm. Worked on the farm and hauled coal for Elburn
Kent. That's about it. I worked at the sugar factory too, didn't I?
FTA: Oh yeah, you worked at the sugar factory.
EKA: Campaigned the last month or two, but was paid good money.
MEA: What was good money back then?
EKA: Oh gosh, a buck and a quarter a day.
FTA: He would have been going to high school if he hadn't quit school to go to work.
The teacher wouldn't let him make up for it, so he just threw his books out the
window and took off.
EKA: Beet season is when you could make a lot of money topping beets. They'd give
us a two week beet vacation, is what they called it, which you have your Spring
break now, but it was to go to work to help the farmers get their crop in. Back in
our days, two weeks wasn't enough. I worked about a month and went back to
school and asked all my teachers for makeup work. They'd all give me the
makeup work but one. He said, "You'll just have to flunk." I asked, "What do you
mean?" He said, "You don't make up work in mine. You missed that two weeks of
school, you can't do anything about it— it's gone." There was another guy in
there that was trying to get me to quit school all year. He was sitting clear in the
back and I was up at the desk and I said, "Hey Don, you still want to quit school?"
He said, "I sure do." I said, "Let's get out of here." We went over to the window
that was open and threw our books out the window and went, and that was the
last day of school for me.
MEA: Wow. How old were you?
EKA: I was seventeen. I only had a year to go to graduate.
MEA: Did you ever go back and finish it?
EKA: No.
MEA: No? Didn't have to?
EKA: Back in our days, college was something that only the rich and famous went to,
there were very few college degrees and you didn't need the education back
then. Now, if you haven't got that education, you're out of luck, but back in those
days, why, if I could drive a dump truck I could get a job any place I wanted.
When I got out of the service I figured I'd be able to go right to work, and out of
the service, they didn't even have dump trucks like I used to drive. Big Utes and
all that kind of stuff, didn't know nothing about that.
MEA: How old were you when the war started?
EKA: Let's see, I'd be sixteen—fifteen I guess.
FTA: Sixteen.
MEA: So it was going while you were still in school?
EKA: Oh yeah.
MEA: Did you get drafted?
EKA: Yep, got drafted.
FTA: All that stuff is in that book you wanted.
MEA: We should get that out.
FTA: We could get it out when we get through with this.
MEA: Did you join when you were seventeen?
EKA: No. I turned eighteen on the 20th of December, and I got my notice on the 21st of
MEA: Wow. So you knew it was coming up?
EKA: It was kind of a bad deal there. The people that were on the draft board were
farmers up there in Lewiston. What they did is they deferred all the boys on the
farm. Anytime they had somebody like me, they would grab them to try and fill
the quota so they could keep their boys at home. So we didn't get much of a
chance as they did on the farm.
MEA: So you got drafted pretty quick?
EKA: Oh yeah.
MEA: Where were you living? I know you were living in Lewiston, but you weren't
attending school. Were you guys dating? What were you doing?
EKA: Oh we were running around since we were sixteen, but we—
FTA: Not really dating.
EKA: There were four girls and there were four of us. We weren't really dating but we
would always go every place together.
FTA: We would ride bikes and play the "Kick-the-Can" games. Things kids do at that
EKA: It's different than when we were kids though. There wasn't any television.
FTA: There wasn't anything.
EKA: The only thing we had was the radio.
FTA: You made your own fun.
EKA: A multi-line telephone. It's changed so much that back in those days, all we had
was each other and those kids we are talking about. That's the only fun we had,
we didn't have any toys or anything else to play with. Had each other to play with
and that's it.
MEA: Pretty much married kids within the town. You dated and married in town.
EKA: I got back out of the service and tried to make a living up in Lewiston. It wasn't
there, so I moved to Ogden. I got a job and did like you, I drove a whole week. I
came back after one week and I wouldn't drive that distance for nobody. Of
course, she was very good. She agreed with everything. So, I moved to Ogden.
There weren't any places to rent so I was living in a chicken coup. Finally, I got a
place to rent and we drove down. I just wouldn't drive that distance.
FTA: That's when I was pregnant with Cathy.
EKA: I'd come over Sardine Canyon, the old canyon. It was quite treacherous. The
roads were slick and everything and I'd been driving for a week. I left Logan and I
remember leaving Logan, but the next thing I remember was the lights in
Brigham. We used to have to drive through Brigham, you didn't cut it off. I don't
ever remember going over that canyon and right then I said, "That's my last trip."
Not going to drive all those miles. Too many hours and not enough sleep. Too
dangerous. Me and two other guys moved down to Ogden until we could find a
place and bring our wives.
MEA: Do you remember how you felt about the war in Europe, prior to Pearl Harbor?
Actually, I guess Pearl Harbor was probably a big thing.
EKA: You know when you're just a kid you don't really think about that stuff much.
FTA: You don't know politics like they do now. You just do what you're told.
EKA: We didn't have information. You can get worldwide information now instantly, and
we didn't have all that. We didn't hear about all those things. Sure, you heard
about Pearl Harbor, but that's about it. I mean, Japs attacked Pearl Harbor. Now
they'll tell you blow by blow, but we didn't have that back then. News was not any
more than what they had to tell you.
MEA: Just got newspaper once in a while?
EKA: I had newspaper and radio.
FTA: My folks never took a newspaper. We had a radio.
MEA: What was the feeling back then? Sometimes you hear about Vietnam and how
everybody was trying to avoid the draft. It seems like back then they were a little
more patriotic about things.
EKA: I believe it was more patriotic back then than it has been. But then, World War II,
we had to fight it. They attacked at us, we had to fight it. Vietnam—and I can't
even think of some of the others—Iraq and all this stuff, we didn't have to do that.
We momentarily did it, and World War II is the only war we've won. All these
others we've lost. Every one of them we lost. There's never been surrender since
World War II. In World War II, Japan and Germany both surrendered. We won
those wars, but these others they didn't.
MEA: Just kind of declared we've had enough and that was the end of it.
EKA: Yeah.
MEA: Did you have a choice of what military service to join?
EKA: Yes, I could've gone to any of them, Army, Navy or Marines. There wasn't any
Air Force then; it was Army Air Force. I don't know why I went in the Army. I
always liked the water, and when I went down there they said, "You're physically
conditioned and you can take your choice. Anything you want." I walked right up
to the Navy desk, turned, and went over and signed up for the Army.
MEA: Really?
EKA: I'm alive so I guess I made the right choice.
MEA: You made the right choice. Did you plan on the Navy all along then?
EKA: We didn't know anything until they said, "You're eligible," so I didn't have a big
plan. I liked the water and I thought I'd make a lot better Navy man than I would
anything else, then I went and signed up for the Army.
MEA: Where'd you go to join? Not there in Cache Valley, did you?
EKA: Logan.
MEA: Right in Logan? They just had a recruiter's office or something?
EKA: There's a recruiters office in Logan. In fact, we left from Logan. I got on the train
in Logan and went in the service. Of course, we just went to Ft. Douglas for a
start, then from there to Texas.
MEA: Was Texas a big camp?
EKA: Camp Fannin, Texas.
MEA: What did you think it would be like there?
FTA: It was nothing but sand.
EKA: Only place I've ever been in my life where I could walk in the water up to my
knees and have the sand blowing in my face at the same time. It wasn't a real
good place. They didn't use up good ground for Army bases, they were just out
on the sand.
MEA: How long was boot camp?
EKA: Six months, then overseas. I thought I was safe for a while because at that time
they had a deal that said they can't send you overseas until your nineteen. They
couldn't send you overseas as a replacement until your 19, but they can send
you over if you're already assigned. So, I was overseas for three or four months
before I turned nineteen.
MEA: I can't imagine being that young and right in the middle of that stuff at eighteen
years old.
EKA: Just snot-nosed kids, that's all we were.
MEA: Where did they send you first?
EKA: We landed in Marsai, France. We hit the front line in the Vosges Mountains of
France. They're mountains like High Creek— cold. We spent the winter in the
Vosges Mountains. It was pretty chilly.
EKA: Yeah, her and mom sent me a nice Christmas. A nice bathrobe and slippers and
I was in a foxhole.
FTA: The one thing you got that you really liked was that Bells candy. She made sure
you had that.
EKA: Yeah she made homemade candy and it was sure good. She made it for the
Bluebird in Logan. Then she'd send it over to me.
MEA: Did you get any special training in camp to be prepared?
EKA: Well, yes, I took a lot of demolitions training and went to an A&P (Ammunitions
Pioneer) platoon after I finished basic training. It was a little different in the fact
that you did patrol work all the time and diffused mines and stuff like that. We
knew how to use explosives. One time, we ran into a dynamite cellar and the
lieutenant wanted me to go in there and take that dynamite out. He said, "You
have the dynamite, take the dynamite out." I said, "No problem." I kicked the door
down and it should have blown up. I looked in there and the nitro was dripping
out of those dynamite sticks. I just backed out of there right quick. He said, "Well
that's a direct order." I said, "Then fire me. I won't go in there and touch that
dynamite. I'll blow it up, but I won't touch it." Another officer came by that knew
what was going on and chewed that officer out and let me off the hook. Once that
nitroglycerin comes out of your stick and a drop of it gets on the floor, it explodes.
MEA: Wow.
EKA: I handled explosives and stuff, but also every time you'd lose people on the line
they'd replace them with us until they could get replacements. We spent a lot of
time on the front lines. If they'd get hit real heavy, they might lose fifty or sixty
people. They'd send us up and we would take their place until they'd get
replacements up there. You've got to have so many people up there or they'll
walk over you.
MEA: Who were you serving under then?
EKA: General Patch in the 7th Army. Patton had the 7th, then they took that away from
him and gave him the 3rd Army and gave Patch the 7th.
MEA: Were you in France all the time?
EKA: France and Germany. Mostly Germany because we fought out of France that
winter. We busted out of France and got into Germany. When we were in France,
it was actually easier because you fought around the towns in France. You tried
to preserve France. But when we got to Germany, we fought right in the towns up
there and were blowing the towns up. We didn't care if we blew the German
towns up or not, but, we tried to conserve as much as we could in France. We
lost a lot of people because you didn't want to blow this building down, or this
church house, or that cathedral up on the hill. They'd want you to preserve them.
All the time that's where the snipers were. So, we tried to take them without
blowing them up and it'd get a lot of people killed.
MEA: Can you tell me about your most memorable experience?
EKA: It's a funny thing. Most of the stuff I don't even remember. I didn't remember right
after it. If you read my bronze star, for example, I can remember everything about
that. I can remember getting these people who were wounded. I have no idea
how I got them out of the town. I have no idea how we got back to the line. It's all
a blank. I don't know I guess there are certain things we just blank out on and we
don't remember them. A lot of the things I can think of some of the stuff. After this
longer period when I think about something I think, "How did that ever happen?"
or "Am I dreaming?" There's a lot of stuff that I don't know.
MEA: Maybe it's kind of a blessing.
EKA: Oh, I think it is. I think it is. It happened several times to me, but that was the
biggest thing. We had twenty-eight people that we rescued out of that town. I can
remember the Germans were moving out and there was a big convoy. We were
just hiding from Germans and trying to find these wounded people and we found
them, and I can't remember anything else.
MEA: Was that in France or in Germany?
EKA: That was in Germany. Well, I'm not sure. It was still winter. It could have been
France. We could have still been up in the Vosges Mountains.
MEA: Did you just get word that there were some people down and you had to get
them out?
EKA: We lost Charter Company. We lost C-company, the whole company. They
wanted a volunteer group to go see if they could find them and I volunteered. Not
to be a hero, but because I was freezing to death. I was in that foxhole and they
said they were looking for volunteers, "Take me." We got out of the foxhole and
we walked all night long. I don't know how many miles. Twenty miles or so I'd
imagine. We pulled into that town and we had lost the whole company. There
were 28 people left in the whole company.
MEA: How many are in a company?
EKA: Oh gosh, I don't know. I don't remember. That's just a small amount, anyway.
MEA: Was that part of that article I read? It was a newspaper article I read that mom
showed me in the book of remembrance. It talked about a Lewiston boy. Is that
the time you volunteered?
EKA: That was the first time she found out I was in combat.
MEA: Really?
FTA: We weren't smart enough I guess.
EKA: Salt Lake Tribune.
FTA: We wrote letters back and forth all the time, but—
EKA: The war was just about over when they came out, so there wasn't much left.
There is so much that I don't remember. I remember just before the war ended I
got the shakes real bad and hid it from the Lieutenant for a long time. We'd go
out on patrol and I was fine, but I'd come back and sit down and just start
shaking. He caught me one day and he said he was sending me back to rest
camp. I said, "No you're not, the war is going to end any day and I want to be
with the guys. I'm not going to get killed after what I've been through." He said,
"I'm not worried about you getting killed. I'm worried about killing the guys who
could kill me. Get on the truck and get out of here." I went back to rest camp and
the war did end while I was back in rest camp. I wanted to be with the company
when the war ended, but I wasn't. I was in rest camp. I had only been back there
a couple of days when the war ended. I wanted to be up there on the front lines
when the war ended, but I was back in Marsai, France.
MEA: Was it a hospital kind of place?
EKA: Well, it was just a rest area. Just vacation to go back there and have nice hotels
and stuff. Good places for you to stay with three meals a day and just rest, that's
MEA: What was it like to hear the war ended? Must have been quite a celebration.
EKA: Those French people. They got the news before we did. We were eating supper
and all of a sudden those French gals working in there got screaming and
running around and we found out it was over. It was an experience you could
say. There hadn't been any street lights on in Marsai, France for years, and they
turned the lights on. People were out there in droves just looking at the lights.
French people. I'm too soft-hearted, Mike. Not much I can talk about. Cathy
wanted me to do something or talk about temple and I can't talk about the
temple. There are so many miracles. When you're working in the temple, you see
them happen every day, but you just can't talk about it.
MEA: Some things are just too sacred.
FTA: They are. You try to tell somebody and you can't do it.
MEA: Sometimes I think the Lord blesses us with experiences that he expects us to
keep to ourselves too.
EKA: Well, that's probably true too.
MEA: Whenever there's a time you have an opportunity to share it and you feel
impressed that it's what the Lord wants you to do, that's when you do it. I can't
imagine being in an area where the lights were always out because they'd been
fearful of the enemy and then to see them.
FTA: They had blackouts. You couldn't even have lights on in the house when you
guys were blacked out.
EKA: I got to see a lot of Germany. After the war was over, the division came home
and I didn't have enough points to come home. So, they transferred me to the
third division, 15th infantry. I drove a truck all over Germany for almost a year
before I got enough points to come home. I had enough points to get discharged,
but I didn't have enough points to get on the ship. You figure how many people
they'd send overseas. Millions of soldiers over there taking seniority rides to bring
them back. They didn't fly anybody. We rode boats back. Ships are all you had
back in those days. They had a few aircraft, but nothing they could move a whole
bunch of people with. The officers would get to fly back, but we just had to wait
until there was room on the boats and the ships so we could come back. I had to
spend almost a year— nine to ten months—driving a truck over there. They did
that for me, they changed my MOS number to a truck driver. I said, "If I've got to
stay over here I don't want to walk around with a rifle on my shoulder, I want to
do something else. Give me a military driver's license, I'll drive." I never drove a
five speed transmission and 10-wheeler. I figured out of all the other vehicles in
the service, I want to get one of them I can drive. Of course, I got a 10-wheeler.
Spent all night long in the motor pool that night and drove that truck around the
motor pool finding where all the gears were.
MEA: You ever remember any of the men in your units? Ever keep in contact with
EKA: No, I hear about more recently in the Marines, they have get-togethers and all
that kind of stuff. We never did get close to each other. You get too close then it's
too hard to lose them. So, I just never made too many friends. I had a couple of
friends though. Ira Sally, he was a professional wrestler. He was my buddy I went
with him all the time. Just never did get close to them. Reece, gosh, their whole
company knew each other and knew them by name and everything. I never did
do that. We just stayed by ourselves. Didn't want to make good friends because
you make a good friend and then you'd lose them. It was just easier not to make
them in the first place. What you want me to talk about in comparison to what
there is today it just—
MEA: It's so much different when you look at what happens when a soldier is out on the
battlefields now compared to what it was like when you were there. I mean, now
they have all these modern things and can fight a war with enemies that they
don't even see from a distance. That wasn't the case for you guys.
EKA: That's true.
MEA: You think about back in Book of Mormon times it was even worse than that
because it was hand to hand with swords and spears. I think the loss of life
because of what wasn't available to you then is certainly different than now.
EKA: Even what you see on television. Thousands of men on each side back in biblical
days. They'd come together and kill thousands and there would be thousands of
people laying all over. It wasn't that bad.
MEA: I was just wondering if you ever received any medals and citations. You talk
about the bronze star, what was that?
EKA: That was for going beyond and above the line of duty, but it just depends
on where you are and what time it is. Everybody does spectacular things when
they have to. Some of us got cited for it and some of us didn't. I could have got a
Purple Heart, but I was always against that Purple Heart. If you get killed you get
a Purple Heart. If you cut your finger, you get a Purple Heart. I never did think
much of the Purple Heart for that reason because there were some recipients
that really earned it, but then there were some of them that just got it as a gift.
We were out in our three quarter ton truck carrying some ammo and a bunch
specialized stuff and we hit a land mine. It blew one front wheel right off the
vehicle and blew us all out of the vehicle. We were all bruised up and we could
hardly move. The guy that was driving, it's cold there of course and he had put a
regular winter glass, house glass and a piece of plywood across there for a door
on the truck. That glass broke and cut his face. One thing about a Purple Heart,
you have to draw blood to have a Purple Heart. That guy that was driving the
truck inside that got a little scratch on his face got a Purple Heart. The rest of us
just almost got killed back there but we didn't draw blood so we didn't get a
Purple Heart.
MEA: You just drove over a mine?
EKA: Yeah.
MEA: Well, we kind of talked about what everyday life was like there that's for sure. I
always think it's interesting when you were talking about mom sending that gift
over and not knowing where you are. It's kind of interesting that they didn't allow
you to say, "This is where I am." They didn't allow that?
EKA: Well I could have told her. I couldn't have told her the exact location, but I could
have told her what I was doing and everything.
FTA: They censored your letter.
EKA: I just didn't want her and mom and dad to know that I was getting shot at.
FTA: They black it out. They didn't let it come through.
MEA: So you actually got letters?
EKA: I'd send letters. Well, I'd say I sent her letters all the time, but she probably got
twenty or thirty letters in one bunch. I'd get the same from her, a whole stack of
letters. I hadn't had any letters for a month and then I'd get a whole month's
supply of letters.
FTA: You'd try to write every day, but what is there every day?
MEA: People would write to you but it'd be months before you actually received the
letter? How did you know what was going on at home?
EKA: Didn't. We didn't know after we got over there.
FTA: Probably just as well because then you wouldn't worry about all that. Worry about
yourself there.
MEA: I'd get homesick wondering what was going on at home.
EKA: You do, but I think the whole thing is the Lord just takes care of you. As far as
being scared is concerned, when I got the letter that said, "Greetings," I was
scared until I got home, but nothing that I couldn't handle. Like I said, I think the
Lord just takes care of you and makes it to where you can do what you have to
do, that's all.
EKA: Some guys got sick on the boat over. They didn't think they were going to make
it. Thought they were going to die from sea sickness. We had two guys in our
outfit that they took off the boat on a stretcher. I mean, they were so weak they
hadn't eaten. We were on the water for fifteen days and they hadn't done
anything but throw up for fifteen days. I never got sick. I was hungry all the time.
All of them got sick. That's fine because then I could go down to mess hall and
get anything I wanted.
MEA: Did you always have enough to eat?
EKA: No. On the boat we did. They only fed you two meals a day, but they were
substantial meals.
MEA: I remember one time I was asking you about Christmas and you told me that you
were able to get a good turkey dinner.
EKA: President Roosevelt said that every man would get a turkey dinner on Christmas
and we did. Oh man, I hadn't had a meal for months. Just cold sea rations and K
rations. Ate this meal and we were all just sick, but it sure tasted good going
down. They had jeeps and they'd bring food up in jeeps as close as they could
get and then hand carry it the rest of the way to the front line. We got our hot
MEA: What was Christmas like? Just another day?
EKA: Just another day. You see some of these picture shows where the Germans and
the Americans both back off, but I never did see it.
MEA: Didn't happen for you, huh?
EKA: No, just one day the same as another.
MEA: Did you have any reminders of home with you? Did you carry anything? Picture
from mom?
EKA: No, I don't believe I did.
FTA: Yeah you did, I think.
EKA: I don't know. Did I? I probably did.
FTA: He threw them all away when he landed at Ft. Douglas. He threw everything
EKA: It was coming back, not going over. See, you weren't allowed to carry anything
that they could identify you by. If you got picked up you weren't supposed to have
anything in your pockets or anything like that. Not a picture or an address or
anything like that. All you had to do was say your name, rank and serial number
when you got picked up. So we didn't really carry anything.
FTA: Had your dog tags and that's it, wasn't it?
EKA: Oh yeah, I carried them. That's the same thing as giving your name and serial
number is all. So they could identify you when you get your head blown off.
MEA: When we were just little boys that you bought us some Springfield 30-06 military
rifles. You used to tell me that in the winter those were pretty reliable, but those
automatics weren't so good in the winter. What did you carry? Did you switch
EKA: I switched for a couple months there. I happened to find one. They didn't issue
them. The snipers use that Springfield like I got you guys.
MEA: With the peep sight?
EKA: No, it didn't have fancy scopes on them. I could knock the scope off because I
couldn't use that and use a peep sight just exactly like the ones you have.
MEA: When I couldn't shoot?
EKA: I don't know, dog gone thing. That sight fell apart and everything else. You had
the worst luck when it comes to guns.
FTA: Guns? Not only guns, everything he got.
MEA: I just know dad's a dead eye shot with that peep sight. I couldn't hit anything and
he shot a porcupine off a tree and said, "There ain't nothing wrong with that gun."
So, you're a pretty good shot.
EKA: Well, it was the same peep sight on the M-1, on the automatic too.
MEA: Oh really?
EKA: That's the same sight that all your military weapons had. So it wasn't like
changing sights, it was the same thing.
MEA: So you used an M-1 and then you used the Springfield?
EKA: Yeah. They'd freeze up and you could hardly open them. The bolt, you could
grab that and even if it's frozen up you could grab that and open it. It only had 5
shots and the M-1 had 8. At the same time, I'd rather have five that I know will
shoot than 8 that I didn't know if they would or not. I think you've seen in some of
your war shows— guys pounding on their M-1—trying to get them to open so
they could get them cocked and shoot.
MEA: Not too reliable.
EKA: They probably were, probably what you get in your own mind. At times I didn't
know, but I'm sure it was very few. All they have to do is not open once and your
show is over. I went to a Springfield for a month or two there. In fact, I mostly
didn't carry an M-1, I carried a Carbine.
MEA: Oh really?
EKA: Yeah, I carried the Carbine because we usually had other stuff to carry besides
just the rifle. We carried Carbines so we could carry ammo. When we'd go on
patrol we'd like to go on patrol with the Carbine a Grease Gun, or a little
automatic. Full automatic Grease guns is what they'd call them. That's just what
they looked like is a little Grease gun with an iron stalk and everything. A lot of
times when you go on patrol you were just trying not to let the Germans rest and
keep them scared. You'd go up there and the artillery observers would spot a
congregation of them. They'd take a patrol in there, sneak up on them, throw a
couple of hand grenades and empty out a couple of those guns. Then they'd turn
and run and we'd stay and fight. We'd just turn and run back for the line. So
when they lay down and tried to get a little rest, in the back of their mind they're
thinking, "Are those guys going to come and bother us again?" We'd just keep
them nervous and worried all the time. I carried a full automatic for a while and
called in a raid platoon. All we did was go out and raid camps like that. That was
good duty too. You talk about food, we'd have to go out every night in front of the
line companies and in the day time we went behind the lines and got hot meals.
That was pretty good. As long as we didn't mess up and give ourselves away,
you figured, those guys we were raiding weren't shooting back. You're looking for
someone to shoot at so you go throw grenades and shoot a couple of clips of the
automatic and take off. Those guys are still docked, they're not trying to shoot
back. By the time they wise up, we're gone. As long as we didn't get caught
going through the lines getting back through there. That was pretty good because
we'd get good hot meals.
MEA: I know you've seen the movies with Bob Hope when he does the USO shows.
Did you ever see any of them?
EKA: I've seen one of them.
MEA: Did you? Who did you see?
EKA: Bob Hope. In fact, he was late to the show because he tried to run a road block
and they shot at him. Shot the gas tank out. Stupid. He put on a good show. It
was their dirty show, but not real dirty. Well, today they would be clean shows,
but back then they were dirty shows. He put on a real good show. I don't
remember the girl that he had with him, but he had girls and he told some jokes.
Some of the jokes were pretty raunchy and some of the girls would leave you a
lot of thoughts to think about what they were thinking. The everyday movies are
worse now than the Bob Hope shows back in those days. For instance, Bob
Hope got an awful big fine on the radio before they had television. He said, "The
new women's swimsuit is going to consist of two thimbles and a cork." They cut
him off, but it was too late. He got it out before he got cut off. Oh man, was he
ever reprimanded and got a big stiff fine for saying that thing.
MEA: Things were different then.
EKA: Nobody would think anything about that now. Back then that was a terrible thing
to say.
MEA: I just remember watching the variety shows with you back in the good old days
when they had them, and always watching Bob Hope T.V.
EKA: I only got to see one of his shows, but I did get to see one. He put on a show in
Stuttgart, Germany when we were there.
MEA: Did you ever play any pranks on your buddies?
EKA: Not to speak of, but they were pulled that's for sure.
MEA: Did you ever get to come home?
EKA: Once. After I finished basic training, I got to come home one time and that was it.
MEA: Once you went overseas that was it?
EKA: I went overseas and stayed there until I got discharged.
MEA: How long were you there? You said you had to drive trucks for nine months.
EKA: I was overseas about a year and a half.
MEA: What were you doing all that time, Mom? Just worrying?
FTA: Working. That's when I worked for Dr. Kragen. My first family.
EKA: I never realized how much of the stuff I forgot all about until you asked me
questions. Most of it left me. Well, that was a few years ago.
FTA: Well, that was over sixty years ago.
MEA: What was the year when you went?
EKA: Forty-four.
FTA: We were married on the 30th of December of 1943.
MEA: So you'd been married a year?
EKA: Before I went in? Just a couple of months.
MEA: Really? Married a couple months and then away you went? That's not time to
have a relationship.
FTA: No. I don't know if we'd have done it differently. We'd done it because he was
leaving and they had a special section at the temple for military. That's why ours
is on the 30th.
EKA: The temple was closed, but they opened it up for one day for the military guys.
MEA: A bunch of you just showed up and went through your endowments and you got
married after?
FTA: At Logan Temple. You had to climb up all those stairs. Back then you couldn't get
anything like a wedding dress or anything. This other couple had a veil made out
of that knit stuff and every step she took to go up there she'd rip, rip, rip. She'd
step on it. They were the first to get married and when the guy told them to kiss,
they gave a big smack. Grandma Anderson said, "Don't you do that." She didn't
want to get embarrassed. It was quite a deal that day. A special day. A day to
MEA: Were you in a wedding dress and everything?
EKA: No, she didn't have one. She borrowed the clothes that she got married in.
FTA: Aunt Ivy gave me a blouse and a skirt.
EKA: A blouse and a white skirt.
FTA: The rest was just the temple issued.
MEA: Do you remember the sealer?
EKA: I don't.
FTA: It's probably on our marriage license.
MEA: Where'd you go on your honeymoon?
FTA: Salt Lake on the Galloping Goose
MEA: What's the Galloping Goose?
EKA: A train that used to go to Lewiston—the Utah Idaho Central.
MEA: Is that where you got on?
EKA: No we got on in Logan and stayed at the temple square hotel.
FTA: We stayed there also when he came home. Didn't we?
EKA: No, we stayed at…I can't remember the name of it now.
FTA: New House.
EKA: New House Hotel. Mom and dad got us a room there. We did stay at the temple
square hotel. In fact, when we stayed there it was a brand new hotel. It hadn't
been opened very long.
FTA: We didn't even know where to go to eat or anything.
MEA: I was going to ask you, what did you do for your honeymoon? Go out to eat? Go
to a movie?
FTA: We went about two feet and then to the hotel because we were scared we'd get
EKA: Country hicks. We were afraid we'd get lost if we went any place. There was a
drug store on the corner there that had pretty good food; we'd eat there most of
the time. We didn't do much of anything.
FTA: Well, I've never been any place in my life.
MEA: So, Salt Lake was quite an adventure?
FTA: I'd been to Salt Lake once when my grandma took me.
EKA: We rode on that Galloping Goose and when we got to Salt Lake, we got off the
train and were afraid we'd get lost so we hailed a cab down. I said, "Can you take
us to the temple square hotel?" He said, "Yeah, it's right there." The old
Vanberger station, there was just an alley between that and the temple square
hotel. We got off the train about twenty feet from the train was the hotel.
MEA: They knew you were from out of town.
FTA: There was this box on the wall, we didn't know what it was and we didn't dare
mess with it. Finally, found out it was the radio, wasn't it?
EKA: Well, it wasn't the radio it was just a speaker. What they had was a central place
where they could play music, and you just had to push the button on the box. I
didn't know whether it was for room service or what it was.
FTA: What was it that we were just laughing about? Oh, somebody next door was
celebrating the New Year and light was showing through. We were laughing our
heads off. Remember? Trying to listen to what was going on in the other room.
EKA: We went to one station while we were there. I can't remember where we went,
but we went to a live show.
MEA: How long were you in Salt Lake?
EKA: I think we stayed there two nights.
FTA: Then, we went back home and stayed with his parents until he left.
EKA: Yeah, we stayed with mom and dad until I left.
MEA: How long?
EKA: A couple months. When I got home, I owned a home. She had bought a home.
MEA: For eight-hundred dollars.
FTA: His uncle gave us a stove. I bought a kitchen set and a bedroom set. Mother and
dad gave us a couch. Back in those days, we didn't even have a fridge. We had
an ice box.
EKA: I don't think we had a telephone, did we?
FTA: No.
EKA: I didn't think so. Now, you've got these things here that…
MEA: I know. When you got home did you stay and work in Lewiston, or is that when
you left?
EKA: I stayed in Lewiston for a couple of years, but just couldn't make enough money.
FTA: We tried the floral business.
EKA: We bought into the floral business with Uncle Al and Aunt Ida. There just wasn't
enough money there. Both of us got out of that and I worked as an auto
mechanic up there at the Jim Bridge for a while.
FTA: That and the sugar factory.
EKA: I took the sugar factory and I drove a dump truck down the road from Richmond
to Trenton on those back roads. I helped build those back roads. I was working at
the sugar factory and driving dump truck. I got scared and quit the dump truck. I
wasn't getting hardly any sleep at all. I'd go down there, take out that dump truck
and go dump my load. I'd come back in we'd be talking and they'd say, "Boy, did
you see that big herd of cows on the side of the road?" I didn't see them. One
time I came back there and they said, "Those kids are going to get killed playing
on the side of the road there." I never saw those kids. Right then I decided, "I
can't be doing this. I've got to quit." I'd work graveyard at the sugar factory from
12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. and had to be at the dump truck from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. The guys would cover for me for that last five to ten minutes while I'd go get
on the other job. I was only home about five hours a day. It just wasn't enough.
MEA: What was it like coming home? When the war was ended and you came home,
was there welcome in the community? Or you just came home?
EKA: No, just came home. They showed all that stuff about World War II and the big
parade back at New York, but that wasn't anybody that had been in combat.
They were the state side "Joes" that never went overseas in the first place. They
had a whole bunch of big celebrations, but we were fighting people and we didn't
have any celebrations at all. We went quiet and we came back quiet.
FTA: I don't know if they had anything in Ogden.
EKA: Seemed to me like you said they did because you said that Craig had taken you
there. I think it was in Ogden they took you and they had a parade or something.
They did right after the war ended though. They had some celebrations, but
when I went, I went all quiet and when I came back, I came back all quiet. Only
trouble I had was I couldn't take any prisoners to Uncle Ed on the farm. They had
a German prisoner of war camp in Preston and they'd use these prisoners up on
the farm. Uncle Ed was having a rough time and I was helping him all I could. I
said, "Let's go get some prisoners." He said, "They won't work." I said "Oh yes
they will, I guarantee you they'll work." So he said, "Alright, let's go." Had to be
armed, so I went and got my shot gun and we went to Preston. We got ten of
them all ready to go and they found out I was just out of the service from
Germany and they wouldn't let me have them. They were afraid I'd kill them.
FTA: Yeah, they'd top beets right next door to the Doctors where I worked we'd watch
them out there topping beets?
MEA: It's interesting that they'd bring them all the way there to Lewiston from Preston.
EKA: Yeah that was a prisoner of war camp in Preston.
MEA: They must spread them all around the country.
EKA: Yeah they were.
FTA: Not in one place.
EKA: I don't know why they were still there because that was a year after the war was
over. They hadn't sent them home or something. I don't remember what the deal
was, but I know when I first got out of the service they had a prisoner of war
camp in Preston. Crazy world.
FTA: You're getting a history lesson.
MEA: I didn't know that at all.
MEA: We're going to look at this book of remembrance and dads going to share some
of the things he remembers about the stuff that mom saved.
EKA: That's Ira Sally, the professional wrestler that used to know.
MEA: He used to tell us a little bit about him. Is this over in France?
EKA: In Germany.
MEA: In Germany where it's all bombed out?
EKA: I didn't even know you had all those pictures of me.
FTA: It's not something you have out every day.
EKA: You can see that we're real smart taking pictures, aren't we? All those shadows;
can't see anything anyway. This is in Germany.
MEA: You really bombed them out it looks like.
EKA: I have a hard time seeing much about it. This is showing you everything pretty
much bombed out. Their fortresses are houses over there. They're all cement
rock and cement houses with walls a foot and half thick. Nowadays it wouldn't
mean very much, but back when a flight of B-17's went over Stuttgart, they would
spend 3 minutes over Stuttgart and level it. The whole town was leveled in 3
minutes. Now, they shoot one shell over there and level it. Back then that was a
lot of bombs they used over there. That picture right there, for example, that's the
Carbine I carried. That's a German pistol I had at the time. A guy offered me
more money for that pistol than what it was worth.
MEA: This is an article that I don't know if I've seen. It says, "Lewiston Man was Cited
With the 100th Division of the 7th Army in Germany 1st Battalion Headquarters
Company. The 398th infantry has been awarded the Meritorious Service Unit
EKA: Meritorious Service Wreath, I forgot that. That's the one that's on the sleeve. I
don't know whether you took that off or not too. She stripped my jacket and all
my ribbons and everything on it. She took all that stuff off and I didn't know how
to put it back on. It was put on there in the right places by the right people and
she took it all off and washed it. Its wool and it shrunk. It was half big enough for
me after she got through with it. I'd like to have had that.
FTA: That was a terrible thing to do. I was trying to be so nice.
EKA: I don't even know what awards I received. I forgot about that Meritorious Service
MEA: It says, "By direction of the President… the Meritorious Service Unit Plaque is
awarded to the First Battalion Headquarters Company, 398th Infantry for superior
performance of duty and achievement of a high standard discipline. The 100th
(Century) Division, of which the 398th Infantry is a part, fought through the
Vosges Mountains in France, cracking the proposed German Winter line there,
seiged the famous Maginot Line city of Bitche for three months and finally
captured it for the first time in the city's two-hundred years history. Breached the
Siegfried Line and drew the Germans on the Southern end of the Western front
back across the Rhine River at Ludwigshafen and deep into Southern Germany.
Most recently, before the wars end in Europe, the 100th had captured the key
Nazi rail and communications center of Heilbronn, after a bitter nine day battle.
The fanatical German stand at the city 100,000 was called the most determined
defense the Nazis put up of their homes soil. Later, the 100th cooperated with
the first French Army.
EKA: There's the whole thing right there.
MEA: You didn't remember that?
EKA: Bitche, France was why we had such a hard time taking that. There's a big cave
up above the town there and they'd take 88 artillery guns. They had two 88's up
there and they'd shoot direct fire at you. It's a shell about that big around and any
time we moved, they'd shoot at us like that and we couldn't knock them out.
Finally, we did. I guess that must have been an enormous cave because Sally
Berlin, we'd listen to her when we'd get a chance. We went up above on top of
the mountains and led charges down on rope and blew the cave up and Sally
Berlin came on that night and said we got the name of the "Bloody Butchers of
Bitche" because they said we killed over two-hundred people in that cave. They
had a fort in that town, an old Robin Hood type fort and they supplied the Maginot
Line. It was talking about that in there. They had underground all the way to
these pillboxes they could send people or guns or ammunition and anything they
wanted from that fort. They'd come up from under the ground. Everything was
underground. Bitche was Maginot Line, but the Siegfried Line was the same
thing. They had a central place, we'd go there and hit those pillboxes and take
them. Figure everything was taken and go on through to the next row of
pillboxes. We'd be getting shot at from the ones we just cleared and we couldn't
figure out how. That's how, because we'd get too hot for them and they'd leave
the pillboxes. We'd get there and throw hand grenades in there which would kill
anything in the pillboxes, but they wouldn't be in there. After we'd get by they'd
go back up in the pillboxes and start shooting at us again. "Bloody Butchers of
MEA: That was quite a big deal then to get that handed.
EKA: Yeah, that was a rough stand there we had. We lost a lot of people in that. The
"Bloody Butchers of Bitche."
MEA: She was a German radio announcer?
EKA: Yeah, that was just amazing. We landed at Marsai, France and took all our
patches and everything off before we left the states. Everything was top secret.
We landed in Marsai and Sally Berlin came on the radio and welcomed the 100th
Division. They knew all about us. They knew how many of us there was and they
knew where we were going to go, where we were going to hit the front lines.
They knew everything. We just laughed about it because everything turned out
that way. Your people tell you that they'd make the password up to five days in
advance. She said, "Get your pencils and papers out. Here's your password for
the next thirty days." And she was right.
MEA: So they knew everything.
EKA: Knew everything about us. That deal called us the "Bloody Butchers of Bitche," it
wasn't 30 minutes after we blew that cave up that she'd come on the radio and
tell us what was done and how many people were in that cave.
MEA: Enemy behind your lines or something.
EKA: She did us a lot of good really. We just loved to listen to her programs. She
played music on it all the time and do you think your loved ones are waiting for
you back there and all that kind of stuff. We just got a kick out of it and we loved
the music she played, so it was just very interesting. When we landed in Marsai,
France, she came right on the radio told us we'd landed and that we were going
to meet German crack troops in the Vosges Mountains in France and that's
exactly where we went. How she knew, I don't know. There had to be somebody
on our side of the line who was feeding her information. A spy of some kind. She
knew a lot more than we did. We didn't know where we were going, but she sure
MEA: This other thing says, "Edward K. Anderson 3-9-9-2-6-8-8-5 Private 1st Class
398th Infantry Regiment for Meritorious Achievement in action during the period
of 6 November 1944 to the 23rd of April 1945 in France and Germany as an
ammunition bearer in an ammunition and pioneer platoon. Private Anderson
performed his duties commendably throughout this period of combat operations.
He displayed outstanding courage and was initiative on 5th December near
Lincoln, France where 6 members of his platoon, he helped to evacuate six
casualties under intense enemy fire for several hours aided his comrades in
riding off a desperate hostile counterattack. The repelling of which substantially
contributed to the capture of Wingen. He entered military service from Lewiston,
MEA: So, your dog tag number, you remember it still?
MEA: Here's another group of you in the mountains. It says, "Just outside Bitche, just
before we made our attack on the 15th of March. There's a pillbox behind us that
were in for borage of artillery. Just came in and the German planes striked and
so the battered pillbox looks pretty good." So it's a picture of a pillbox, group of
you around it. I wouldn't have known what a pillbox was if you hadn't told me.
There's a pretty handsome guy with his shirt off. It says, "My darling, the paper's
not very good, so I am sending the magazine with all the pictures." These look
like pictures of France and some of the sites. Cathedrals.
FTA: Why don't you see that sketch of your dad?
MEA: I saw that. Who did that?
FTA: Who did that for you? Do you remember?
MEA: There's a name on it but I can't read it.
MEA: It says Sally.
FTA: I wondered if he was an artist.
MEA: Who was Sally?
EKA: Don't remember that either.
EKA: He was a professional wrestler. His wife got after him until he had to give it up.
Then he went into show business. Got him a little band called, "Yodeling Ike and
the Texas Rangers." He said, "There wasn't any one of us that'd been to Texas."
"Yodeling Ike and the Texas Rangers." He could yodel that's for sure.
MEA: "So it's your first day in the Army and you want a raise in pay? Certainly its worth
more now after I learned the work would be easier." You've got a bunch of
MEA: Here's another article on the 100th. "Once again the Wheel of Fortune brings the
100th division rest inside the fold of VI Corps guiding sentry division for the third
time with the headquarters under which it received its baptism of fire. In war,
Major General Withers a duress 100th division, served twice under the Veteran
Corps direction. First, upon entering the line in November 1941, in the Vosges
Mountains and last in the struggle for Heilbronn in March and April of this year,
separated and ordered under other control in each of these campaigns, the
division recently became an occupational unit of the headquarters. The woods
were dense and the hills steep in Vosges."
EKA: Sergeant Ingel Britson was the platoon sergeant. Lieutenant Jamson was a
Lieutenant. He was the one that sent me to the rest camp that said he's not
worried about me getting shot he's worried about me shooting the guys going to
shoot him.
MEA: It talks about the atomic bomb. Were you back home by then?
EKA: No, when they dropped the atomic bomb, the 100th division hadn't come home
then. We were preparing to go to Japan, but decided to stay there when they
dropped the atomic bomb and ended the war. The 100th division came home
and I didn't have enough points to come home.
MEA: So after all you been through there getting you prepared to go, another one?
EKA: If they hadn't used the atomic bomb we probably would have made it over there,
but they figured a lot of people were going to get killed when we get to Japan.
We didn't have to get Japan, they surrendered before we had.
MEA: This says, "August 6th, President Truman today announced that an atomic bomb
has been used against Japan for the first time with power equal to 20,000 tons of
TNT. In a statement issued at the White House, Mr. Truman revealed that
sixteen hours ago, sometime Sunday, and American airplane dropped one of the
new bombs on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had
more power than 20,000 tons. He said it had more than 2,000 times the blast
power of British grand slam which is the largest bomb ever in the history of
EKA: A lot of history in that book right there.
MEA: I'll say. You have a German swastika. Japan surrenders. BJ Day. MacArthur.
Douglas MacArthur must have been there. You have a long thing called, "Loving
a Soldier." A poem? Here's your citation for the Bronze Star. This is the same
one that I read.
FTA: I can't believe there's so much history in that book.
MEA: You got a recommendation for the Sustained Superior Performance Award.
"Twenty-five Aircraft Sheet Metal Recruiters WG-10 and intermediate levels."
That was at Hill Field. Well, we got quite a bit. Anything you want to add?
EKA: There's stuff I forgot all about, then you see stuff in there that I don't remember
FTA: You got those two German friends that were writing to you telling you to come
home and never answered back. Weganer, something?
EKA: Vernor. A lot of things I should have done and didn't.
FTA: Like what?
EKA: Answer those kid's letters.
Pill Box 1945. Just Outside of Bitche just
before we made our attack on the 15th of
March. It is a pill box behind us that we
were in. A borage of artillery just came in,
and the German planes just striked, so the
battered pillbox looked pretty good to us.
Ludwigsburg, Germany Bitche, France
St. Lewis, France Bitche, France My Darling, the paper is not very good
so I am sending the magazine with all
the pictures.
Ludwigsburg, Germany
Bitche, France St. Lewis, France
Bitche, France Bitche, France Bitche, France
Ludwigsburg, Germany Bitche, France
Lt. Jamson our platoon Lt. and Sgt. Ingel Britson our
platoon Sgt.
Ira A. Salley, Carver Street Waterville Maine. Ludwigsburg, Germany
Stuttgart, Germany
This picture is not just a blur, it is just the view of Stuttgart. My Darling, this is a picture of us when we were pretty
regal and as you can see it wouldn't hurt us to get close
to a razor and also get about 2 inches cut off my hair.
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Molly's Q & A
Who's your favorite sports team, and why?
University of Texas Longhorns! I bleed orange, and love my Longhorns! This is where I attended undergrad, and I would watch Longhorn football, baseball, and basketball any day of the week!
What's your favorite movie quote?
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while you just might miss it." -Ferris Bueller's Day Off
What's your favorite video game, and could you kick our butts at it?
Old school Super Mario! That's the only game I am good at because I played it a lot when I was a kid, and I love to kick it old school! :)
Piercings/Tattoos (How many? Where?)
I have several small tats: Love in white cursive on my right wrist, small angle wings on my back, and 4 small bright colored stars along the curve of my left hip.
What's the most embarrassing song on your iPod?
Barry White, "Can't get enough of your love babe" Although, I feel no shame about jammin to some love songs.:)
What's your best party trick?
Putting on my lipstick just using my cleavage! (like in the movie The Breakfast Club!) :)
What's the most memorable pick-up line you've ever heard?
"Do you know karate because your body's kicking?" :) ha
What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done?
Umm, this is embarrassing, and sorry to say but way illegal too! I am from a small Texas town outside of Dallas, and loved the movie Dazed and Confused. So, me and 2 of my girlfriends smoked on the 50 yard line of our high school football field late in the middle of a Saturday night! Sorry mom!!
It's 4AM after a crazy night out – what are we eating?
Taco Bell!
What's the strangest thing in your fridge right now?
I sometimes have spoons in my fridge or freezer because they are really great at reducing any under eye puffiness if I didn't get much rest the night before if you place the cold metal against your skin. It skins the blood vessels and reduces inflammation giving me a little bit more rested appearance. :)
What's the naughtiest thing you've ever done in public?
I'll plead the 5th on that one.:)
What do you feel sexiest wearing?
Cut-off denim shorts and my cowboy boots
Tell us a joke.
Knock, knock...who's there...boo...boo who?...Don't cry; its only a joke :)


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He plays on Doctor on TV, and he's also a real life physician.
Dr. Mehmet Oz is blowing out 53 candles on his birthday cake today.
Does the good Doctor even consume cake?
If he does, it's probably a low-carb, low-fat, vegan, gluten free type of confection.
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