Lunch with 101st 506th Don Burgett, who was Robert Morneweck Sergeant in the 506th company A. Robert was wounded in Bastogne and K.I.A. crossing the Rhine River, invited me to this lunch. I am Robert brother Arthur. It was a pleasure to attend this luncheon. I met Mark Bando, Author & Historian and many 101st members including master of ceremonies George Koskimaki.I was in Air Cadet and Infantry so when they announced lunch would be "Army SOS" I said WHOOPY. It was pretty good, with green beans, yellow beans, carrots (no bread that was under the SOS. Then came desert Ice Cream and Cookies. Then every one mingled and talked. One 101st man last year went to where he fought in WW2. The mayor of the town treated him like a king and he said he was overwhelmed A retired Eastern Un. Professor told his story of being 12 years old under German occupation. I saw pictures of Fox wholes that were still there (but un-occupied). It was a wonderful time. They invited me back and asked to bring my inter net adopted daughter Marion Chard. Marion has a great web dedicated to her father, a combat engineer, and Marion father died when she was 12 years old so I became her adopted father. Watch for forth week of February for next story as she will have been to the next 101st luncheon and she will have a much better story than I have. . There are so many things I enjoyed at this lunch on. I will close for now; my one finger typing is getting tired. Art
Art, thank you for sharing this story. I've read Donald Burgett's book Currahee, but was unaware that he had served with your brother. Currahee is Burgett's outstanding account of his service with the 101st in Normandy. I see from Google that he has also written several more books about his service with the 101st, books which I will definitely add to my "to read" list.
