He didn’t want to tell us the history of what he had seen as an American soldier helping to liberate Nordhausen, a Nazi death camp, at the end of World War II. The man who smiled and found “Happy Days” in small calamities did not want to talk to us about those days or that time. We hadn’t even known that he fought in the war. He left the details of the explanation to Grammee. He never hid his photos from us; they were there each time we looked. It was as if he had taken in the images of those suffering people and given them shelter in a solid wood cabinet deep inside the safe world of Midland.
