Christmas at the photo plant, 1946. My dad and his future wife
 (arms crossed, kneeling with my dad)  and the rest of the friends
and characters they would talk about thereafter. Many became lifelong friends. 

Customs declaration

This Veterans Day is more sombre than most for my dad as he soldiers on after my mother, my dad's wife of 64 years, died Oct. 15, 2012.

She is mentioned late in my dad's story about his years crossing Europe because it was near the end of his tour that he met her. A Bavarian, she was working in a Munich photo processing plant that he found himself running as a civilian after the war ended.

 She was the only "thing" he brought back that caused a bit of ruckus in the Funk family household.

This is page two of the passenger list for the HolbrookVic which sailed
from La Havre, France. His future wife Elisabeth would eventually follow
sailing form the same harbor.