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Susan Etzel Vize
Mother of two daughters and grandmother to 5 grandchildren, I am the first born child of Jean Etzel. A former English teacher with a minor in journalism and history, I always watched war movies wit...view moreMother of two daughters and grandmother to 5 grandchildren, I am the first born child of Jean Etzel. A former English teacher with a minor in journalism and history, I always watched war movies with my dad and discussed them with him. He used to talk in generalities about his own experiences. So I began questioning him more specifically. He always told me, “Susie, you don’t want to know.” To employ another tactic, I started to ask him things like what did you hate most about the war? One thing he did tell me was that he never got enough to eat and he never got enough sleep. I told him I was going to start writing down his answers and he gradually began to open up even more. In 2008 after his death, I found the old notes I had taken and decided to fulfill my promise to him to write a book about what he told me.view less