Three Days to a Purple Heart
April 14, 1945 — U.S. Army Corporal Haig Derderian sat on a hillside with soldiers from his 714th Company B Tank Battalion in Unternesselbach, Germany. It was about 5 pm on a warm spring day in this tiny German village about 50 miles west of Nuremberg. Men in the tank battalion had orders to stay […]
The Swan
It stood about 12 inches high and was about 8 inches wide. It was made of ceramic, colored dark brown and light orange, and hollowed out on the inside. To any sensible person, this hideous “thing” should have been thrown out in the trash and in a landfill. And that’s exactly where I picked it […]