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Julia February 5, 2008 Mr. Fitzgerald My grandfather in WW2 My name is Julia, and I interviewed my dad about my grandfather in WW2. I interviewed my dad using the phone in the MICDS middle school library on January 29, 2008. I chose to interview about my grandfather because I knew that he played an important role in WW2, and I wanted to learn more about it. My Grandfather was born in 1924 in Gary Indiana. He had a scholarship to play basketball at Michigan State, and after his freshman year, he left to join the army with his older brother. At home his family included a younger sister, mother, father, and baby brother. My grandfather left for the war at age 19, in 1942, to become a medic at the front line. He was in many battles such as Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Bridge at Ramagan, Rhine Valley, and Munich. My grandfather saw many men killed, and said that no one wanted to make any friends; for fear that they would die. MY Grandfather went into the war as a Confident and outgoing man. When he came out, he was disturbed by what he had seen and unsure of himself. My grandfather seldom talked about the war unless asked, it was not a pleasant memory. Some lessons that should be taken away from this interview is that not everyone that was in the war is comfortable talking about it. My grandfather had many men die in his arms, which haunted him for the rest of his life. He was always probed by questions like; maybe if I did this, than that soldier would have lived? Soldier volunteers go into the war to fight for their country, but when most come out all they are left with are horrible memories of the people they killed and people that got killed around them.