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26 NATIONAL REVEW/JU LY 1, 2002

In my father’s generation, of course, everybody served. If my dad were alive today he’d be 87, so he was a World War II guy. He was in the Army, stationed down South, never went overseas. His brothers did, though: His older brother Bill (Bela) drove an ambulance in the Pacific theater; his kid brother Johnny Jan) landed at Normandy and took shrapnel at the Battle of the Bulge. They were all Jewish kids from the old country—what is now Slovakia—and they were fighting for their new country.

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26 NATIONAL REVEW/JU LY 1, 2002

In my father’s generation, of course, everybody served. If my dad were alive today he’d be 87, so he was a World War II guy. He was in the Army, stationed down South, never went overseas. His brothers did, though: His older brother Bill (Bela) drove an ambulance in the Pacific theater; his kid brother Johnny Jan) landed at Normandy and took shrapnel at the Battle of the Bulge. They were all Jewish kids from the old country—what is now Slovakia—and they were fighting for their new country.