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This is my mother's writing about her hero - her father. On this Memorial Day, I can't get him out of my head. Love you, Grandaddy. You are a hero to all of us. "George Charles Shields, Jr. is the father of Catherine M. (Shields) Keller. I am she! I want...

I am continually in awe of my four grandparents.  One, the daughter of an immigrant, fluent in two languages and baker of the world's best pies.  Another, a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army and veteran of World War II and Korea.  A flapper and feminist who could play a mean...