This story is about my mother and father, Byron and June Walker, and their families in Jewell County, Kansas during the years of World War II (1940-1946 and beyond). While this story occurred during WWII, it is not really about the war itself. Dad, his older brother Waldo, and momÕs two brothers, Max and Julian, all served in the European Theater. Max also served in the Pacific Theater. The story is about these four men who fought during the war; how it affected them and their families during the war; and continued to affect them after the war. The basis of the story is the 373 letters Dad wrote to Mom from Europe which Mom kept in a shoebox in her cedar chest. There were another 75 letters between family letters in the collection as well. Besides the stories told in these letters, information from the military records of the four men and their units were researched. Dad was a member of the 778th Tank Battalion during the war.