I enjoyed the great fortune to visit Southern Italy with my parents in 1984. We toured the battlefields from Salerno to Rome with other men from the Texas 36th Division. Ironically, some Germans who had defended the beach were also there at the same time. I had the honor of translating for the former foes.
Here is dad on Red Beach 41 years later. He got kind of quiet and strange on the beach. He told me not to walk on the sand as it was mined.
This was an important time for both of us. He always wanted to return to Salerno and I always wanted to go there with him.
These are the pre-Roman, Greek ruins of Paestum.
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