Stories Are Everywhere

Even if they are never widely told. Example--at a recent garage sale I found a small oil painting, maybe 18x12. It's a portrait of a bespectacled US Army sergeant, very serious looking. The late artist's name is difficult to make out, though I believe I have tracked him down. But what strikes me about this is the date, March 3, 1945. The war in Europe was winding down, its counterpart in the Pacific to drag on just a bit longer, and someone, somewhere, stretched canvas over a small wooden...