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My Grandfather Samuel Shaw Street was born on April 26, 1896 in Philadelphia, PA. I dont know much about his childhood
except that he graduated from Central High School in 1914 and was nicknamed "the human hairbrush". He later went into
the Insurance business before joining a long career in the millitary. Samuel was in WW1, where he rose to the rank of
Luitenant. He entered WW2 as a Captain and went to Germany after the war was over. He helped in the reconstruction
of Germany. Samuel was in the Ordinance Corp. and then was sent to Okinawa where he was a Battalion commander.
He was a Lt. Colonel by then. He served in the Korean war, but never was in battle. Technically, he was involved
in Vietnam as he worked as a civilian at Frankfort Arsenal in Philadelphia. Samuel became bitter at the Army as they
tried to discharge him out of the Army before he was elligible for retirement benifits which was a common trick during
that time. Samuel was a desk soldier as he was in his fourties when WW2 started. However, as a field officer in
WW1 he was buried with honors at Arlington National Cemetary quite close to President Kennedy.
When he was in his fourties, he married Nora Virginia Keene of Harrisburg, PA. . She had a daughter Alma
from a previous brief marriage to Luther Conrad Dapp and Samuel raised her as his own. The previous marriage and scandalous
divorce was never mentioned and only came to light recently. Samuel and "Virginia" had a son in 1936 named Samuel.
Samuel Sr. died September 10, 1970. Virginia died in September 1998 and is burried with him in Arlington National Cemetary.
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