WEST-BY-GOD VETERAN

Harold Payne survived the hard, lean years of the Great Depression and combat operations all across the European Theater of Operations; severely wounded and captured in the Battle of the Bulge, as a Prisoner of War he survived illness and near starvation while men died to the left and right of him. Then he came home and did forty years in the coal mines of his beloved "West-By-God-Virginia".


Like we say in the Army: "Harder than woodpecker lips."


Harold Payne FINALLY recieved due recognition for his service & sacrifice in October 2008 - FORTY EIGHT YEARS after the fact! ! !



















Talk about a hard life . . . I can't even imagine what this man went through - before, during or the forty years AFTER the great World War II . . .


. . . STORMBRINGER SENDS