06-10-2006, 02:10 PM
Another fellow that was in for the long haul was my wife's Uncle Steve Gracan.I havent been able to find out when he first went in, but said he was tired of waitingon Roosevelt to do anything and ended up joining the Canadiain Army! When the US finally got in he was able to transfer to the US Army and becameone of Darby's 1st Bn. Rangers. After the 1st and 3rd Battallions were disbanded he returned to Texas to train a new Battallion.
Ranger Gracan was quite a story teller and I spoke to him several times on the phone before he passed away in 1978 my wife Karen, said that all the neighbor kids would gather when they heard he was in town to hear his great stories.