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My late grandfather wasn't in the war. He was an engineer at Ford so those men didn't get drafted so they could help produce tanks and such for the war (or so I've heard). However, he played a very big part in the war...He was one of the engineers on the Manhattan Project.
I never learned about it until years after he had died when it somehow came up at a family gathering. Apparently he was extremely ashamed of it. The government basically came to the car companies and asked for their brightest engineers, and he was a chosen. He had shown my brother some of the old files he had in his basement at one point. Interestingly, the day of his funeral my brother went to look for them when we got back from the wake - they were gone. We don't know if grandpa had gotten rid of them at some point, or if "someone" else had...I'm such a conspiracy theorist!!!
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