About the Hoback Boys-- Part 5: "Family After Family Struggled to Absorb the Blow"

When the company left town in 1941, more than a hundred boys left with it, but by 1944, as a function of reassignments and such, only 35 of them remained in the company, which had been brought up to strength with soldiers from all over the country.

Bedford had been one of the 35.

Throughout the rest of that Sunday, telegrams were delivered all around town, and family after family struggled to absorb the blow.

The next day, in our childish way, my sister Rachel and I thought we might cheer folks up by making them some ice cream.

And, then.  More bad news.

Losing one son and brother is bad enough, but....

--GreGen