article_snippet: He was a mechanical engineer.
article_snippet: Gale and Melinda Gale history teacher sister always had a fascination with Gale and her history teacher sister father's experience in the war and in 2000 took a trip to Europe to retrace He steps.
article_snippet: Mom had never gotten to see everywhere He had been.
article_snippet: We did this amazing trip
article_snippet: so I can picture exactly where He was on December 29 of 1944, sitting in this miserable, cold, dark forest in the northern region where France, Germany and Belgium all meet.'