The ranks of the people who fought in, and personally remember World War II, the people journalist Tom Brokaw called “The Greatest Generation” are rapidly thinning. My mother, who heard the announcement over a Zenith radio that Pearl Harbor had been attacked, is now in her 90’s. My father, who served in Europe during World War II, died in 1987. Many families share similar histories. Virtually every American family was touched in some way by World War II. Many lost loved ones in the conflict. But with the war over 60 years in the past, personal memories of the war are fading.
Those memories and the recollections of those who fought are vividly alive in Abilene, Texas, at the 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum. Recently, the museum was awarded part of a USDA Distance Learning Grant. That grant will be used to provide materials to explain the War and its aftermath to future generations.
