I doubt if anyone cares, but my grandfathers story is good, and it would be a shame to let it die. Unfortunitly, he passed away when I was a child, so I have never been able to learn more, or even find out how much of it was true.
My Grandfather Einer was born in Norway. He was there when the Nazis invaded. He fled to a ski hut and tried to collaberate with the British. Unfortunatly, he was blown up in some kind of an 'accident.' He wasn't killed, but did recieve some terrible burns, and lost part of his hearing. Both of which I saw evidenced as a child. When Einer relized that the British were leaving, he organized his own escape too. But not before seeking some revenge.
His little sister had been molested by an officer when she was a child. The officer was aquited, but Einer told everyone that he would have revenge. My grandmother told me that this man was also a Nazi collaborator, and I don't doubt her word, but who knows? But before fleeing Einer murdered that man. Though no one saw him, everyone knew who did it.
Einer fled threw England to Canada. There he attempted to enlist in the Royal Airforce. He was with them for some time, but when America entered the war he was permitted to join the USAF. And I have no idea why. I don't know what he did in the USAF or RAF, but he was decorated. I even saw his purple heart before he died. I don't believe he flew, but he did speak English very well. Still! I'm pretty puzzled by that heart.
After the war, he wasn't able to go back to Norway, because of the murder. He tried very hard to contact his little sister, but he never heard from her again. Einer's father had been killed on one of Norway's Naval ships. Einer had no other family.
Fortunatly the U.S. offered him citizenship. He had met my grandmother in Canada, and it was then that the two of them were married.
This is the story my grandmother told me when I was very young, before she passed away. My mother never had any interest in her father, so she never cared. He died very poor, and his things were all sold or given away, to pay for some debts. Even his medals. My grandparents were divorced neighbors, so there was no attempt to save any of his possessions. This is all that I know of his story.
