The Most Important Thing

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David Gross. The Most Important Thing

Dedication

Contents

Prologue

Appendix

About the Author

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The story is based upon the adventures of Bradley Gross, a Korean War veteran and my father. Bradley Gross took most of the photographs which appear in this book during his journeys to the Far East. This book is dedicated to my father.

“Daddy, what did you do in the war?” asked Dennis, the baby.

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“Yeah, that was easy,” acknowledged Private Gross. In all of Basic Training, that was the only question asked of Kentuck. The Army determined Bradley Gross possessed the intellectual capacity of the successful infantryman with that sole question.

It wasn’t long before every man in the company called Bradley Gross “Kentuck.” The name gripped him; he didn’t want to be called Kentuck. Plenty of boys from Kentucky would have been proud of that name. But Bradley joined the army to escape Kentucky.

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