Dear Gary / Dear Kevin: Enclosed is your personal copy of "My War in Europe," which I've been meaning to write for the last 55 years. I actually started it in Munich in 1945 but just finished it last week (Nov. 14, 2000). Now that's procrastination!
I guess the impetus to get it done, finally, was my visit to the Allies' landing beached in Normandy this past September (2000). Unless you've been there, it is hard to envision the magnitude of the assault by a bunch of teen-age and college-age kids in 1944 that led to the end of World War II.
Being in the U.S. Army for more than two years, in combat against the German Army and Air force for 181 days, working for the army exchange service as a civilian for 18 months and meeting your future Mother in Munich certainly changed my life. That is why I have written this tale of my adventures so that I can become a written part of the Funk family history.
I hope that you will enjoy reading it, and perhaps it will remind you as to what our generation of Americans the way we are.
-- Dad
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