Having spent some time with Ancestry.com over the last year, I found a copy of this tiny article in the Salisbury Times, Maryland, dated May 10, 1945:
'Hear of Son's Death as Truman Talks' - Morgantown, W. Va.
- Mr. and Mrs. Sam Urdanoff sat in the living room of their home in Dellslow listening to President Truman's proclamation of final Allied victory in Europe.
Came a messenger's knock at the door. The telegram he brought said their son, Cpl. Jordan J. Urdanoff, 21, had died of wounds received while fighting in Germany.
These were my grandparents, and so much family trauma was finally explained in this one article. Thank you for your sacrifice, Uncle Jordan.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.My Uncle Frankie, oldest of 8 died in Europe, I think in June of '45. He survived the war also, but was killed in a plane crash in Italy before he could make it home
twill
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June 2, 2019
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Oh, how gutting for your family to lose him after the fighting ceased!
'twouldn't it have been so much better, if instead of going to war against Germany, we would have allied with Germany and taken out Bolshevik Communism. Perhaps today, we would not be under the yoke of international Zionism. General Patton thought so.
BitinDawg
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May 30, 2019
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the real crime & scandal is that all those young men died to enrich the MIC.
callmedubious
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May 29, 2019
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Isn't ancestry.com run by the Mormon church?
Honorabledougn
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May 28, 2019
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Yes, I believe so.
@tinkercreek ya that majorly creeps me out.
Non for profit sure. But there is a major self serving factor there.
From what I understand it is owned by Mormons and has a close relationship with the Mormon church but it isn't run by the church itself.
@UpsideDownAgain my experience with close relationship and church has never inspired hope in me.
@Honorabledougn Indeed.
never knew that. my wife & i had our profiles done by them & i've had several cousins contact me that i wouldn't otherwise have know about.
also a little surprised by my DNA profile bur quite sure it's fairly accurate.
@callmedubious genealogy is a very big thing with my Mormon side of my family. I see the value of it. But I would feel better not having related to any church
VE day was May 8th. His parents and other loved ones had probably thought he had made it.
What a crushing blow to their euphoria that must have been.
BufftonBeotch
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May 27, 2019
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Exactly, with restrictions of the time on both communications and travel, I'm sure my Grandma would have already begun homecoming plans, so devastating.
@tinkercreek Only 21. It is hard to look at the ages they died without weeping a bit.
And the millions who died. Americans had it easy compared to much of the rest of the nations.
Stories like this keep war real...which is why they need to be remembered. Families suffer when others take us into war...
Much respect to your Uncle and your family....
thinktwice
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May 27, 2019
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