Go West, Young Man


My dad working in Ocean City, Maryland, on his 17th birthday.



My dad at Central High School in Philadelphia. German POWs were kept in the National Guard Armory next to the high school, and my dad and his friends could hear them playing sports and talking in German.



My dad at 15. Gimbel Brothers photography, Philadelphia.

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