a wife, kids, the latest appliances, a home of your own. the gi bill, generous government benefits, helped them buy the homes they were building. it paid for college educations and helped them start businesses. new was in. new suburbs and new cars and highways to get there. building the country was the easy part, gis would discover. passing on to children the tough values that won the war, that would take all the effort a war hero could muster. bob bush wanted his sonls to be in the business but he didn t want to make it too easy for they will. so each son paid his father for a lumber and hardware store. the older sob mick knew he would follow in his father s foot steps. bush s younger son rick tried other things before he bought from his father a store of his own. okay.
grew up in omaha with a war hero for a father. kilmer lives in the arizona retirement community sun city west where he led a campaign to create a boulevard of flags. his town is nicknamed flag city. that has a lot of meaning for him because he was held by the germ knows until a tank battalion carrying american flags rliberated his prison cam. tell me about what you remember. i remember it almost as if it was yesterday. the nazi flag swa stick is was lowered and an american flag was raised. i think of it most every time i drive up and down our boulevard of flags in sun city west. this is a long way from a german prisoner of war camp, lloyd. it s a long way.
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