(From the Dec/Jan Zephyr) Remembering WWII, The ‘Bulge’ & ‘That Jerk’ Patton… from a 1989 interview with Moabite ED McCARRICK

An excerpt:

December 7, 1941   
I was in a store in Newark, N.J. buying candy when the news of Pearl Harbor came across on the radio.  I was already registered

for the draft.  I’d done it the previous July and so I knew I was going to be in the Army.  I decided I’d rather get in the Marines. I probably liked the uniform or something.  I was a kid.

But my draft board wouldn’t release me because they had to meet their quota.  Maybe they did me a favor; if I’d been in the Marines, I might’ve been knocked off at Guadalcanal.  Who knows?

Click the image below to read more of Ed’s Account of the Battle of the Bulge:

http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2014/12/02/remembering-wwii-the-bulge-that-jerk-patton-from-a-1989-interview-with-moabite-ed-mccarrick/