Categories: Metro Detroit, River Rouge, Lincoln Park
Finding my grandfather in River Rouge
In honor of Veteran's Day and my grandfather’s recent passing, I decided last week to investigate some of his past.
My grandfather, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, was never a man who revealed the details of his life, and, accordingly, I didn’t know much about his youth. Grandpa was a great storyteller, but the problem was that he told two stories over and over. One was about how he was once a great baseball player, and the other was about his experience as a military policeman in Japan.
After some Veteran's Day reflection on him and his service, I decided to see what other stories about him that I could discover.
Grandpa grew up in River Rouge, and according to his discharge papers, lived there until at least 1946. After that, he lived in Lincoln Park. After some digging through paperwork and old love letters my grandmother had sent him, I finally found his address and some photos of him during that era.
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