Family Ties
There are photographs that have been passed down from my grandpa on my father’s side to my dad. All of the artifacts that my family have are images of my family in the army. The photograph that holds significance to my family particularly my father would be a picture of his uncle and my great uncle in his army uniform during WWII.
This photograph was taken during the early 1940’s towards the end of the second World War. This image holds significance to my grandfather because this was his older brother, who also died during this war. His name was Dionicio Lucio and he had such an impact that one of my uncle’s was named Dennis in memory of him. His legacy is still passed down to this day. Dionicio was born on July 18,1923 in Texas, he died September 4,1945. Shortly after his death he was buried in …show more content…
In fact the image above of my great uncle, his name is on one of those monuments, his name is on a memorial in Arizona that was created in 2013. Over 500,000 United States soldiers died during this war, although on the memorial wall in Arizona there are only a little over 1,500 names on the wall. The wall was named The Honor Roll Project. It is named this because it is the honor roll of the names of people who died during that period of time.
This time period was a very big deal in our history, as previously stated the allies won the war. Although the official ending of the war was September 2, 1945 ,war was not completely ended on that day. It continued to wage on and more casualties happened during the aftermath of the war. During WWII over “insert statistic” people in total died, which was more casualties than WWI. Although, during this war there were more events going on. During WWII as stated in the previous page the Holocaust, D-Day, and Pearl Harbor were going on which caused the number of casualties to rise as opposed to
There are photographs that have been passed down from my grandpa on my father’s side to my dad. All of the artifacts that my family have are images of my family in the army. The photograph that holds significance to my family particularly my father would be a picture of his uncle and my great uncle in his army uniform during WWII.
This photograph was taken during the early 1940’s towards the end of the second World War. This image holds significance to my grandfather because this was his older brother, who also died during this war. His name was Dionicio Lucio and he had such an impact that one of my uncle’s was named Dennis in memory of him. His legacy is still passed down to this day. Dionicio was born on July 18,1923 in Texas, he died September 4,1945. Shortly after his death he was buried in …show more content…
In fact the image above of my great uncle, his name is on one of those monuments, his name is on a memorial in Arizona that was created in 2013. Over 500,000 United States soldiers died during this war, although on the memorial wall in Arizona there are only a little over 1,500 names on the wall. The wall was named The Honor Roll Project. It is named this because it is the honor roll of the names of people who died during that period of time.
This time period was a very big deal in our history, as previously stated the allies won the war. Although the official ending of the war was September 2, 1945 ,war was not completely ended on that day. It continued to wage on and more casualties happened during the aftermath of the war. During WWII over “insert statistic” people in total died, which was more casualties than WWI. Although, during this war there were more events going on. During WWII as stated in the previous page the Holocaust, D-Day, and Pearl Harbor were going on which caused the number of casualties to rise as opposed to