Just prior to the 2024 Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Memorial Day ceremony in Wellington, I was privileged to be given a newspaper article from Troy Thomason about his brother, Melvin Thomason. Published in 1944, the human-interest story, “Country Boy In Italy Teaches Farming To New York Flyer,” told about three B-24 gunners who were raising a pig behind their tent in the midst of World War II. T…
