Dearest Folks
Here I am dictating these few words to let you know that I'm as well as can be expected and as always my hopes are that all at home are in the best of health thanks to God.
The reason I haven't been able to write is because of my wounds, and previous to that I had been busy. Got in te way of some incoming mail and got one in the chest and neck. Now I'm getting along fine and still a chow hound.
I'll close now as I can't think of anything else to say. Give my regards to Jim B.
Love, Paul."
On March 7th, 1945, then 21 year old Private First Class LaBounty, United States Army, was struck through the neck by a Japanese Sniper's bullet. After three years of jungle warfare, they finally got him. The bullet entered the right side of his neck and exited out the left side of his chest, just above the hip.
Surely this would be the end of an ordinary man....but this was no ordinary man. And this man would not go down that easy.
This is the first of what I hope to be many of the fascinating stories that is Our Grandpa Paul. Some sad, some funny, all real. This is one of the most incredible men I have ever met, and it just so happens he is also my Grandpa. He is one of many heroes of his day. A dirt poor kid from the mid-west, he fought valiantly for his country in the greatest conflict known to man, then moved on to become a ledendary Sheriff- and the greatest Grandpa there ever was.
Say hello to Grandpa Paul.
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