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After our intial contact, my great aunt, ML, sent me this photo of my grandfather, Vaughn. It's terribly faded now because I had it up on the refrigerator for years before realizing that was probably a bad way to store the only photo I have of my grandfather...
Now I have this tucked away in a box with some other photos and I use a scanned image to share with people that are interested. Because I didn't know him, the only thing I really know about my Grandfather is information I heard from other people.
More recently, within the last 6 months, ML sent me more photos. So, I know Vaughn was in Europe during WWII, at least at the end of the War I was told he was part of the Berlin airlift. It appears he was part of a Military Police Unit.
In the years since I first corresponded with ML, I also learned that I have a half uncle, Wolfgang who is from Germany. I have his email now, and he occassionally emails from his worldly travels, but I haven't had the opportunity to meet him yet. Perhaps some day...
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