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Memorial Day is coming
up again like it does every year like death
and taxes. It amazes me that people honor
all who have severed our country. That’s
not what Memorial Day is all about.
Memorial Day is a day to honor those who
died in uniform. We seem as a country to be
getting dumber each and every year.
Attached to this narrative is the report
showing what happened to this soldier who
died December 31, 1944. This soldier was
Paul Tertychny a member of Battery B 377th
Parachute Fiend Artillery 101st
Airborne Division.
Private Tertychny went out that night to
repair a telephone wire that had been
damaged. While Tertychny was repairing the
line he was
hit by artillery. They brought him back
to the Command Post. Private Tertychny took
4 hours to die of his wounds. The officer
who filled out this form stated that the
Private was in intense pain for those 4
hours until he died.
The
Morning Report matches up to a point but
it doesn’t tell the whole story. Private
Tertychny on the Morning Report shows that
he was killed in action. That wasn’t true
as he died of his wounds 4 hours after the
attack. Sometimes the Reports/Records don’t
tell the whole story.
This is what Memorial
Day is about, not parties or a day off from
work or sales at the locale Wal-Mart. Most
seem to have forgotten what this is all
about. Try and remember that this day is
for those who never came home.
Brian N. Siddall
May 25, 2024
(Thanks to Jim Bigley for the
Citation)
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