Woohoo! On the road again. I just can’t wait to get on the road again…. life I love is going down the highway to share this fascinating and relevant history.
This week we will be back at MCB Quantico (I’ve not been there since 2019) for an interview with the Marine Corps Association’s Scuttlebutt podcast.
This special place was our grandfather’s last duty station before he died in 1945.
He returned from the Pacific in November 1945 and died on March 25, 1945 at a party of First Marine Division veterans at Colonel Kimartin’s house at the Marine Barracks in Washington, DC. (Ahem, for the record, he did not die in a restaurant which a certain author stated in his new book).
Here is a video of the family at Quantico circa 1944/1945. It also show’s our grandfather receiving the DSM. The Marines Corps Archives discovered this during our visit to Quantico in 2019 and kindly put it on a DVD. I uploaded it Gen. Rupertus’s YouTube channel https://youtu.be/dZ3svI_C3z0
On Saturday, September 10, 11-1AM, we will be at Barnes and Noble Woodbridge, VA, signing books and chatting about Major General Rupertus and the Marines in the Pacific during WWII.
Of course, I will stop by Arlington National Cemetery to visit our family graves and that sacred ground.
#SemperFidelis
