Thank you for your service, and your sacrifice: Grandpa DiPoala

The family is not close-knit. No one spoke of my grandfather James DiPoala; I was never told about his life, his years in service nor anything about him or his personality. All I knew growing up was that Grandpa DiPoala was "shell shocked" in the parlance of his time, and the reason he didn't live at home with Grandma was that he'd become violent then deteriorated to the point where he no longer recognized her or his child…

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