My father took part in both world wars, as a soldier during World War I, and as a deportee to Transnistria [3] under the Antonescu regime [4] during World War II. He was only a soldier during World War I, but he was promoted to corporal – that was it, he never made it past corporal. He fought in the mountains, I know for a fact that he actually reached Marasesti [5], but I don’t know too many details about the war period, I didn’t hear or learn any stories about it. My father was kind by nature, I can’t imagine him taking aim to shoot someone else.
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Before WW2
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