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Friday, April 06, 2007

My grandfather's WWII POW memoir

There's an article today in The Journal News about WWII veterans, including my grandfather, Norman Bussel, who just finished his memoir about his experiences as a POW (his agent will be shopping it around soon but if anyone wants more information, please email me at rachelkramerbussel at gmail.com)

But wars and their aftermath have a way of creating their own similarities, especially among those who survive them, and today Bussel feels a connection to the young men and women returning home from fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. Those connections were on full display at a ceremony yesterday at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs center in Montrose, honoring prisoners of war.

Bussel, a navigator whose bomber was shot down on a raid over Berlin, said he hoped recent veterans would get the right services they need to carry on with their lives. As a veteran, he said, he understood the complexities involved in readjusting to civilian life after combat.

"We get vets coming back from Iraq I can relate to," said Bussel, a resident of Mohegan Lake, "There are invisible wounds that you carry for the rest of your life." He recently completed a book about his experiences as a POW called "Liberated Body, Captive Mind," a work he hoped might provide information to families with returning combat veterans.

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