![]() “I remember feeling in awe at the time,” recalled Michael Riordan, director of the Open Publishing Lab at RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences in Henrietta, who was the recipient of the binder and felt moved to help the veterans preserve and publish their stories. Some of the stories were handwritten and rife with grammatical errors others read like polished manuscripts. The Battle in Common did not start out as a book, but as a three-ring binder of first-person stories collected by members of the now-disbanded Genesee Valley Chapter of the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge. The book, first published in 2012, bears firsthand accounts of 19 local men who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Most, like Poppy, never share their experiences during the war, which makes it critically important to listen to and support those World War II veterans who do.Ī few years ago, I had the opportunity to interview several Rochester-area World War II veterans for a series of articles about an extraordinary book they made called The Battle in Common. ![]() When Poppy died in 1993, he took his stories with him - which is not uncommon.Īccording to the National WWII Museum, only about 1 million of the 16 million veterans of World War II are still alive, and 555 die per day. He never talked about his experience during the battle, or anything to do with World War II, for that matter. My grandfather, Donald “Poppy” Miner was one of the men who survived the Battle of the Bulge and helped lead the allied troops to victory. 25, 1945 in The Ardennes, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. Department of Defense statistics list 19,000 Americans killed, 47,500 wounded and 23,000 missing in the battle that took place from Dec. This week marks the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, widely considered to be the largest and toughest battle won by American troops during World War II. Battle of the Bulge stories to become e-book
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