When people speak of the war, the first things that they think of are D-Day, storming the beaches at Normandy, war in the Pacific, or the Battle of the Bulge where my older brother Pat had been injured with a bullet in the neck.

You never hear about Monte Cassino and the Italian Campaign. It’s as if it has been forgotten. The Italian campaign involved some of the hardest fighting in the war and cost the United States forces some 114,000 casualties. The campaign played an important part in determining the eventual outcome of the war. At the age of 89 I pulled my story from the drawer, and now I want to share it with all. It took a long time before he spoke of those experiences and when he did it brought me to tears. He wanted the war in Italy told because it’s hardly ever spoken of.

I’m blessed to still have my dad and he is so proud of what I’ve done for him. But he’s always been there for me and will always be my hero.
~ Valerie DeFazio Vacula, Author of The Italian Campaign, One Soldier’s Story of a Forgotten War now available on Amazon www.amazon.com/Italian-Campaign-Soldie…/…/ref=sr_1_1…

Special thanks to Valerie for sharing her father’s story with Comes A Soldier’s Whisper where we are all connected.

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