IN ADDITION TO THOSE LISTED BELOW: A GREAT-GREAT GRANDPA BY MARRIAGE WAS A CIVIL WAR VETERAN. TWO OF GRANDMA TEWINKEL'S BROTHERS WERE IN UNIFORM IN WWI. CARL GOT TO EUROPE IN TIME FOR ARMISTICE DAY. EMIL NEVER LEFT THE COUNTRY, AND I SERVED IN VIET NAM.
THE TEWINKEL SERVICE FLAG
ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY A FAMILY FRIEND IN 1944 AND PUBLISHED IN THE RIVER FALLS JOURNAL
There are very many service flags
In this good old USA. But I would like to tell of one,
Not very far away.
You can see this flag at River Falls;
There are five stars shining there. Five boys who are far away from home
And their loved ones' tender fare.
Eugene is in California yet,
With his wife and family. He does his share to win this war
In an aircraft factory.
Floyd was first to answer the call;
He left three years ago. He is somewhere near Pearl Harbor now,
The name that we all know.
Margaret lives in Florida;
She has two little boys. The fact that her hubby is at home
Is one of her greatest joys.
Morris is in the Navy now,
His wife is in St. Paul. He was the last one of the five
To answer his country's call.
Tom wrote home some time ago
And gave his New York address. That means that he will fight this war
In Europe soon, I guess.
_- Vernon is stationed now in France,
She stays at his folks' home. They care for her and her baby boy
While he fights across the foam.
Don is the youngest sailor lad,
In the Southern Pacific Zone. Too far for a lad of nineteen years
From the friends he has always known.
The youngest girls are still at home.
Iolean is a Senior now. I can't know what her future will be,
But she'll get by somehow.
Betty Lou is their little baby girl,
But she's getting pretty tall. Fourteen years old with lots of pep,
And a Sophomore this Fall. I've told about the children first,
But we mustn't forget Mother and Dad.
The kids say they are the grandest folks
That anyone ever had. To all their very many friends
They are known as Ella and Ed. Which proves they are very much all right,
And that's enough to be said.
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