The Green Metal Box

An extended excerpt from Charlie Sykes: On this Memorial Day, I want to do some personal remembering. A year ago on May 1, as some of you may know, my mother died. She was 87. A year ago today May 25, I found a green metal file box among the things we were able to save. Inside was the story of her first husband, a young man named Lambert Hruska, who joined the army in the months before WWII, rose to the rank of captain with the 3rd Infantry Seventh Army, was awarded the Silver Star and bron