Project Grandpa

I hope you enjoyed my High Castle fan tale, The Prathra Project Files—It was a rare opportunity for fun! I don’t know if I’ll be able to come up with something like that again. A lot of work was involved in creating that, but it was all a labor of love. I cannot wait to see what Season 3 has in store for us.

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The Man in the High Castle rekindled my interest in WWII.

My paternal grandfather (a good man and a shining example of the Greatest Generation) joined the Navy during WWII and served aboard a ship in the Pacific. On a whim one haunting night in October, I googled his ship. I saved the few black and white photos of it I could find (including a wonderful shot of the crew) and had them printed.

On Veteran's Day, I hung a framed dedication to him in the living room. After I stepped back and gazed at his black and white face, I decided I wanted to learn more about his time during WWII. My aunts say he never spoke about the war.

What started out as curiosity has become an extensive research project.

I’m going to post it here. There is some fascinating stuff out there! Information on his ship was hard to find, believe me. Scouring through old Navy reunion sites and 90s era web pages is a lot of work, but I can almost paint a picture of what my grandfather went through and of some of the things he saw now.

If my paper (yes, I’m willingly writing a paper, and no I am not in school right now!) is long enough, I might make a hard copy of it to give to relatives and to have as a keepsake.