"Normal School was like junior college is today and that is where she got her teaching certificate." That should read, "Boulder Prep School was to prepare one for university as there were no high schools at the time, in Boulder." She did get her teaching certificate after attending there.

Peter, your parents sound like wonderful and honourable people, which, really does not surprise me....seems they did a pretty good job of raising a son with the same attributes.

Amos, I think I posted it somewhere, maybe last year about my Uncle Howard, one of Flora's children, who was a vet of WWII. Lied about his age, wound up in the Marines, in a foxhole on Guadacanal for some ungodly length of time, many months, was wounded so badly he had to stay in New Zealand for a year before he could be moved to the States. Still had shrapnel in his body for the rest of his life, some of which was near his heart and he was told it could kill him at any moment. When he retired from a government job and applied for veteran's benefits, he had to fight for several years, including trips to Washington, D.C. before he ever got anything.

It is our belief, from hints he gave near the end of his life, that the war had a terribile "post traumatic stress" effect on him and contributed greatly to his struggles with alcoholism and eventual suicide by shotgun in 1994. I don't think the government could ever have compensated enough for what he and many others went through and which haunted them all of their lives.

When I called my dad, who knew my uncle very well and had played in a band with him, and tearfully told him what had happened, his consoling and wise words were, "I cannot blame him. He was in pain for all of his life after the war. Now, he is free of it all."