I am thankful that I am finally making headway in my research on the 1251st. I'm thankful that there are folks here who offer suggestions and information to aid in my journey through my fathers military experience.
I am thankful that my friend Ed Bearss who is 84 years young is still able to lead history tours (hes on the road about 200 days a year), edit and write books, work as a commentator on television, lecture and raise a lot of money and awarness for Civil War Battlefiend preservation. He was severly injured in January 1944 in the Pacific theater and spent a long time rehabbing. He is the only person who could inspire me to run across several lanes of highway, leap a fence, waddle down a hill and pick my way through brambles, all to see where the porch that John Wilkes Booth expired on USED to be.
I am very happy to not have been brought up under occupation and speaking either German or Japanese.