Veteran's History Project - Billy D. Rush

Billy D. Rush

RM 2nd Class

U.S. Navy

1948-1952

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in The Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Sidney, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.

In mid-1948, World War II had been fought.

Not so many years before, tens of thousands of our nation's sons and daughters had fought and supported the effort valiantly. Most came home and went about their lives. Some didn't make it back.

Bill Rush had two brothers who were in the war. One had been in the U.S. Navy and...