In Remembrance of My Father's Trunk

by Calla Jones Corner

My father, Robert Arthur Jones in Canton 1945 as a member of OWI

Perhaps we all have our first memories of celebrating Memorial Day. Mine comes from 1945 when my father returned from the Pacific Theater of World War II.

I was only two years old.

My father didn't have to go to war; he had a family and was "safe" from the draft. Nevertheless, he volunteered …